Tuomas Leisti

Senior Behavioral Scientist

Tuomas Leisti's mission is to improve the way we think, because conscious, logical reasoning alone is not enough to tackle our biased mind in decision-making. We may not be able to utilize our tacit knowledge, for instance, or we might resort to rationalization of our default, intuitive choices. This can bring unwanted inconsistency - noise - to our decisions and minimizing this noise has been one of the main themes of his research. Tuomas received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from University of Helsinki. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, teaching psychology, organizational behavior and innovation management. In addition to research and teaching, Tuomas has a long history of collaboration with companies with topics of human-technology interaction and perceptual quality assessment. He is also the author of the book "Päätöksenteon illuusiot - Ymmärrä miten teet päätöksiä" ("Illusions of decision making: Understand how you make decisions", co-authored with Hanna Poskiparta).