Decisionscape : the art of getting perspective / Elspeth Kirkman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkman, Elspeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book unpacks the organizing metaphor of the "decisionscape," examining how psychological distance alters our decisions by dictating what we foreground and what we diminish, how our personal worldview influences how we interpret information, how the overall "composition" of the decisions we are faced with has an effect on how we react to them, and how our decisions are bounded and framed by the invisible forces of culture and context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: a sense of perspective

The road to Brunelleschi

The decisionscape

Part I: distance and diminution

Blood on the White House carpet

Out of sight, out of mind

"Everything in my face all the freaking time"

Beyond the vanishing point

Part II: viewpoint

The way I see it...

The veil and the lens

Everyone else jumped off a cliff

Whistle a happy tune

Part III: composition

The bull in the sky

Robbing the record store

I guess that's why they call it "the blues"

The sum of our parts

Part IV: the frame

About time

The passive voice was used

Beating about the bush, and other euphemisms

Breaking the frame

Conclusion: designing the decisionscape.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37824-8

0-262-37825-6

OCLC:

1424751514