Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making / edited by Derek J. Koehler and Nigel Harvey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koehler, Derek J.

Harvey, Nigel.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Judgment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (682 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Summary:

The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and conflict. Contains contributions by experts from various disciplines that reflect current trends and controversies on judgment and decision making. Provides a glimpse at the many approaches that have been taken in the study of judgment and decision making and portrays the major findings in the field. Presents examinations of

Contents:

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Part I: Approaches; 1 Rationality and the Normative/Descriptive Distinction; 2 Normative Models of Judgment and Decision Making; 3 Social Judgment Theory: Applying and Extending Brunswik's Probabilistic Functionalism; 4 Fast and Frugal Heuristics: The Tools of Bounded Rationality; 5 Yet Another Look at the Heuristics and Biases Approach; 6 Walking with the Scarecrow: The Information-processing Approach to Decision Research; 7 Computational Models of Decision Making

Part II: Judgments8 Inside and Outside Probability Judgment; 9 Perspectives on Probability Judgment Calibration; 10 Hypothesis Testing and Evaluation; 11 Judging Covariation and Causation; 12 A Tale of Tuned Decks? Anchoring as Accessibility and Anchoring as Adjustment; 13 Twisted Pair: Counterfactual Thinking and the Hindsight Bias; 14 Forecasting and Scenario Planning: The Challenges of Uncertainty and Complexity; 15 Expertise in Judgment and Decision Making: A Case for Training Intuitive Decision Skills; 16 Debiasing; Part III: Decisions; 17 Context and Confiict in Multiattribute Choice

18 Internal and Substantive Inconsistencies in Decision Making19 Framing, Loss Aversion, and Mental Accounting; 20 Decision Under Risk; 21 Intertemporal Choice; 22 The Connections between Affect and Decision Making: Nine Resulting Phenomena; 23 Group Decision and Deliberation: A Distributed Detection Process; 24 Behavioral Game Theory; 25 Culture and Decisions; Part IV: Applications; 26 Behavioral Finance; 27 Judgment and Decision-making Accounting Research: A Quest to Improve the Production, Certification, and Use of Accounting Information; 28 Heuristics, Biases, and Governance

29 The Psychology of Medical Decision Making30 Judgment, Decision Making, and Public Policy; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

476169849