
Preference, Belief, and Similarity
Selected Writings
Amos Tversky(Author)
Eldar Shafir(Editor)
Bradford Books (Publisher)
Published on 12. December 2003
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-262-20144-5 (ISBN)
Description
Amos Tversky (1937-1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 60 mm
Weight
1592 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-20144-5 (9780262201445)
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Persons
Eldar Shafir is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Author
Department of Psychology
Editor
William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public AffairsPrinceton University