Escaping from Bad Decisions

1. Introduction: Escaping from Bad Decisions2. Formal Definitions of the Worst Decisions, Best Decisions, and Bad Decisions3. Rational Choice, Irrational Choice, and Bad Decisions4. Preference Ordering and Measurement5. Rational Preference, Irrational Preference, and Revealed Preference6. Multi-Attribute Decision-Making, Multi-Objective Optimization, and the Additive Conjoint System7. A Computer Simulation of Cognitive Effort and the Accuracy of Two Stage Decision Strategies in a Multi-Attribute Decision Making Process8. A Computer Simulation of Bad Decisions and Good Decisions: An Extended Analysis of Two Stage Decision Strategies9. A Process Tracing Study of Decision Strategies and Bad Decisions10. A Process Tracing Study of Bad Decisions: Using Eye Tracking in Food Decision Making11. Decision Strategies and Bad Group Decision-Making: A Group Meeting Experiment12. An Observational Experiment in Group Decision Making: Can People Detect Bad Group Decisions?13. Revisiting the Group Decision-Making Experiment14. The Detection of Bad Decisions and a Voting Experiment15. Metacognition and the Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Process16. The Contingent Focus Model and Bad Decisions17. An Experiment on, and Psyschometric Analysis of, the Contingent Focus Model18. The Situated Focus Model and its Relation to Other Theories19. The Mental Ruler Model: Qualitative and Mathematical Representations of Contingent Judgement20. How Attention Arises in and Influences Decision-Making21. Escaping from Bad Decisions and Future Perspectives