The Adaptive Decision Maker
Published on 28. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-0-521-42526-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows how decision makers balance effort and accuracy considerations and predicts which strategy a person will use in a given situation. A series of experiments testing the model are presented, and the authors analyse how the model can lead to improved decisions and opportunities for further research.
Reviews / Votes
'The Adaptive Decision Maker provides a compelling overview of the empirical results and conceptual framework that the authors have been pursuing in their research program over the last 15 years. The effort-accuracy framework represents an attempt to shift the research agenda from demonstrations of 'irrationality' in the form of heuristics and biases to an understanding of the causal mechanisms underlying the behaviour ... a significant work for the field of behavioural decision making as a whole.' John CarrollMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
30 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-42526-1 (9780521425261)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Preface; 1. Adaptive decision behaviour: an introduction; 2. Contingencies in decision making; 3. Deciding how to decide: an effort/accuracy framework; 4. Studying contingent decisions: an integrated methodology; 5. Constructive processes in decision making; 6. Why may adaptivity fail?; 7. Improving decisions and other practical matters; 8. The adaptive decision maker: a look backward and a look forward; Appendix; Footnotes; Bibliography.