Judgment and Decision-Making: In the Lab and the World

ISBN-13: 9781137269553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 305 str.

USA) Kim Nancy S. (Northeastern University

Opis

How do we make the judgments that inform our lives? Is there any way of consciously removing bias from the choices we make? What do our everyday personal decisions have in common with those made by groups, companies, and even nations? In this innovative textbook, Nancy Kim presents a multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of judgment and decision-making. Throughout the book, insights from traditional cognitive approaches are combined with findings from fields as diverse as neuropsychology, behavioural economics, social, developmental and clinical psychology, and philosophy. It is an essential companion to any student taking a first course in judgement and decision-making, or a general survey course in cognitive psychology. Judgment and Decision-Making

• Covers an enormous breadth of material in a rigorous and thoughtful manner, remaining accessible without over-simplifying the field
  
• Surveys both classic and contemporary research and builds beyond findings from laboratory settings to emphasise real-world application of theory in many different contexts
  
• Features learning goals, suggested readings, questions for discussion and detailed walk-throughs of example problems to show how students can apply theory to their own homework, classwork or research
  

Spis treści

1: Introduction.- 2: Representativeness and Availability.- 3: Hindsight Bias.- 4: Anchoring and Primacy Effects in Judgment.- 5: Mental Accounting and Choice.- 6: Schemas and Framework Theories.- 7: Expected Utility Theory.- 8: Framing Effects and Prospect Theory.- 9: Judging Covariation, Contingency, and Cause.- 10: Hypothesis Testing and Confirmation Bias.- 11: Risk Assessment.- 12: Prediction.- 13: Belief.- 14: Moral Judgment and Cooperation.

O autorze

Nancy S. Kim is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University, USA. Her research focuses on health-related judgment and decision-making by lay people, patients, clinical trainees and practicing clinicians. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on judgment and decision-making, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.