Judgment and Decision Making
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4051-2399-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Judgment and Decision Making" is a refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments. This work offers an accessible examination of the wide variety of ways people make judgments. It features up-to-date theoretical coverage, including perspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience. It covers dynamic decision making, everyday decision making, individual differences, group decision making, and the nature of mind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making. It illustrates key concepts with boxed case studies and cartoons.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2399-0 (9781405123990)
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Additional editions
Book
01/2009
1st Edition
BPS Blackwell
€48.50
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Person
David Hardman has taught judgment and decision making at London Metropolitan University since 1998, where he is Principal Lecturer for Learning Development. He is co-editor of Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Psychology.
Content
Preface.Introduction.1 The nature and analysis of judgment.2 Judging probabililty and frequency.3 Judgemental distortions: the anchoring and adjustment heuristic and hindsight-bias.4 Arguments and evidence.5 Covariation, causation and counterfactual thinking.6 Decision making under risk and uncertainty.7 Preference and choice.8 Confidence and optimism.9 Judgement and choice over time.10 Dynamic decisions and high stakes: where real life meets the laboratory.risk.11 Decision making in groups and teams.12 Cooperation and coordination.13 Intuition, reflective thinking, and the brain.Index