Thinking - Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making
Published on 28. January 2005
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392 pages
978-0-470-01332-8 (ISBN)
Description
This exciting new collection shows how two previously disparate areas, reasoning and decision making, have recently converge in both theory and research. The editors have assembled leading figures in the field to create a key reference for scholars and students. Major themes include: the role of uncertainty; prior knowledge and pragmatic influences; individual differences and casual thinking. Contributions from leading researchers in the field An integration of both decision making and reasoning Covers an impressively wide range of topics at the interface of reasoning and decision making
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
872 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-01332-8 (9780470013328)
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David Hardman | Laura Macchi
Thinking
Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making
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11/2003
1st Edition
Wiley
€55.99
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Persons
Edited by Dr David Hardman, London Metropolitan University, UK and Professor Laura Macchi, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Content
List of Contributors. Introduction. Part I: Reasoning. Chapter 1: A Theory of Hypothetical Thinking (Jonathan St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over and Simon J. Handley). Chapter 2: Individual Differences in the Development of Reasoning Strategies (Maxwell J. Roberts and Elizabeth J. Newton). Chapter 3: Generalising Individual Differences and Strategies Across Different Deductive Reasoning Domains (Padraic Monaghan and Keith Stenning). Chapter 4: Superordinate Principles, Conditions and Conditionals (Neil Fairley and Ken Manktelow). Chapter 5: Premise Interpretation in Conditional Reasoning (Guy Politzer). Chapter 6: Probabilities and Pragmatics in Conditional Inference: Suppression and Order Effects (Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater). Part II: Judgment. Chapter 7: Verbal Expressions of Uncertainty and Probability (Karl Halvor Teigen and Wibecke Brun). Chapter 8: Possibilities and Probabilities (Paolo Legrenzi, Vittorio Girotto, Maria Sonino Legrenzi and Philip N. Johnson-Laird). Chapter 9: The Partitive Conditional Probability (Laura Macchi). Chapter 10: Naive and yet Enlightened: From Natural Frequencies to Fast and Frugal Decision Trees (Laura Martignon, Oliver Vitouch, Masanori Takezawa and Malcolm R. Forster). Chapter 11: More is not Always Better: The Benefits of Cognitive Limits (Ralph Hertwig and Peter M. Todd). Chapter 12: Correspondence and Coherence: Indicators of Good Judgment in World Politics (Philip E. Tetlock). Part III: Decision Making. Chapter 13: Cognitive Mapping of Causal Reasoning in Strategic Decision Making (A. John Maule, Gerard P. Hodgkinson and Nicola J. Bown). Chapter 14: Belief and Preference in Decision Under Uncertainty (Craig R. Fox and Kelly E. See). Chapter 15: Medical Decision Scripts: Combining Cognitive Scripts and Judgment Strategies to Account Fully for Medical Decision Making (Robert M. Hamm). Chapter 16: On the Assessment of Decision Quality: Considerations Regarding Utility, Conflict and Accountability (Gideon Keren and W..andi Bruine de Bruin). Author Index. Subject Index.