Research on human judgment and decision making has been strongly guided by a normative/descriptive approach, according to which human decision making is compared to the normative models provided by decision theory, statistics, and the probability calculus. A common empirical finding has been that human behavior deviates from the prescriptions by normative models--that judgments and decisions are subject to cognitive biases.
It is interesting to note that Swedish research on judgment and decision making made an early departure from this dominating mainstream tradition, albeit in two...

This volume is the fruit of the 5th conference on Naturalistic Decision Making which focused on the importance of studying people who have some degree of expertise in the domain in which they make decisions. The substantive concerns pertain to how individuals and groups make decisions in professional and organizational settings, and to develop suitable methods for studying these questions rigorously.
This volume appeals to practitioners in business and government, as well as academics and students who are interested in naturalistic decision making.

The essays in this collection are the product of the 2000 Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) Conference. They attempt to discover progress made in the field since the first volume was published in 1993. Individual paper address topics such as planning under time pressure, managing complex dynamic systems and making ethical decisions. As a whole, th

This is a contemporary biography of Zachary Taylor, one of the American heroes of the Mexican-American War and future president.