Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment

PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISIONMAKING Chapter 0. Preface Chapter 1. The Lawyer and Policymaker as Problem solver and Decisionmaker: The Roles of Deliberation, Intuition, and Expertise Chapter 2. Framing Problems and Identifying Objectives And Identifying Problem Causes Chapter 3. Generating Alternatives: Creativity in Legal and Policy Problem Solving Chapter 4. Choosing Among Alternatives PART TWO Making Sense of an Uncertain World Introduction to Part Two Chapter 5. Introduction to Statistics and Probability Chapter 6. Scores, Dollars, and Other Quantitative Variables Chapter 7. Interpreting Statistical Results Chapter 8. Explaining and predicting one-time events Chapter 9. Biases in Perception and Memory Chapter 10. Biases in Processing and Judging Information Chapter 11. The Social Perceiver: Processes and Problems in Social Cognition PART THREE MAKING DECISIONS Introduction to Part Three Chapter 12. Choices, Consequences, and Tradeoffs Chapter 13. Complexities of Decisionmaking: Relationships to our Future Selves Chapter 14. Complexities of Decisionmaking: The Power of Frames Chapter 15. Decisionmaking Under risk Chapter 16. The Role of Affect in Risky Decisions Conclusion to Part Three Part Four Influencing Decisions Introduction to Part Four Chapter 17: Social Influence Chapter 18: Influencing Behavior Through Cognition Chapter 19. Group Decisionmaking Chapter 20. Conclusion: Learning from Experience