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Intelligence analysis : behavioral and social scientific foundations / Baruch Fischhoff and Cherie Chauvin, editors ; Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- Behavioral assessment.
- Intellectual capital.
- United States.
- Intellectual capital--United States.
- Behavioral assessment--United States.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Decision making--United States.
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- The 13 papers in this collection are the work of committee members of the Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, which produced a consensus report: Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The papers offer summaries of research related to recruiting, cultivating, deploying and retaining the human capital of the US intelligence community. A sampling of topics includes operations research and intelligence analysis, applications of game theory in support of intelligence analysis, signal detection theory, individual reasoning, intuitive theories on behavior, group processes, and workforce effectiveness and organizational challenges. Editors are Fischoff (social and decision sciences and engineering and policy, Carnegie Mellon U.), and Chauvin (study director). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0309176980
- 9780309176989
- OCLC:
- 708327332
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