Social judgment and decision making / edited by Joachim I. Krueger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krueger, Joachim I.

Series:

Frontiers of social psychology.

Frontiers of social psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment--Social aspects.

Judgment.

Decision making.

Social psychology.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Psychology Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is ""What information comes to mind and how is it transformed?"" The second section poses the question of how social judgments and decisions are to be evaluated. The chapters in this section present new quantitative models that help separate various forms of accuracy and bias. The third section shows how j

Contents:

Cover; Social Judgment and Decision Making; Copyright; Contents; Prolegomena to a Social Psychological Approach to Judgment and Decision Making; Editor; Contributors; Section I The Processes of Judgment and Decision Making; 1 Where the Mind Goes: The Influence of Endogenous Priming on Thought and Behavior; 2 The Cognitive Economy Model of Selective Exposure: Integrating Motivational and Cognitive Accounts of Confirmatory Information Search; 3 Automatic and Controlled Decision Making: A Process Dissociation Perspective

4 The (Ir)rationality Project in Social Psychology: A Review and AssessmentSection II Measurement Issues; 5 Irrational Numbers: Quantifying Accuracy and Error; 6 The Strengths of Social Judgment: A Review Based on the Goodness of Judgment Index; 7 A Multivariate Approach to Ambivalence: It Is More Than Meets the IV; Section III Ecological Rationality; 8 Simple Heuristics in a Complex Social World; 9 Social Judgments From Adaptive Samples; 10 More Than an Artifact: Regression as a Theoretical Construct; Section IV Applications; 11 Simple Heuristics for Mate Choice Decisions

12 The Company You Keep: Friendship Decisions From a Functional Perspective13 The Social Psychology of the Wisdom of Crowds; 14 Cognitive, Affective, and Special-Interest Barriers to Wise Policy Making; 15 Where Do Nonutilitarian Moral Rules Come From?; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

1-136-98857-2

1-280-66230-1

9786613639233

0-203-85415-2

1-136-98858-0

9780203854150

OCLC:

794670577