- Paperback: 768 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (Jun 13 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521483344
- ISBN-13: 978-0521483346
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,110,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book offers an overview of recent research on the psychology of judgment and decision making, the field that investigates the processes by which people draw conclusions, reach evaluations, and make choices. An introductory, historically oriented chapter provides a way of viewing the overall structure of the field, its recent trends, and its possible directions. Subsequent sections present significant recent papers by prominent researchers, organized to reveal the currents, connections, and controversies that animate the field. Current trends in the field are illustrated with papers from ongoing streams of research. The papers on "connections" explore memory, explanation and argument, affect, attitudes, and motivation. Finally, a section on "controversies" presents problem representation, domain knowledge, content specificity, rule-governed versus rule-described behavior, and proposals for radical departures and new beginnings in the field. Students and researchers in psychology who have an interest in cognitive processes will find this text to be rewarding reading.
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This anthology offers an overview of recent research on the psychology of judgment and decision making, the field investigating the processes by which people draw conclusions, reach evaluations, and make choices. An introductory chapter provides a way of viewing the overall structure of the field. Subsequent sections present significant recent papers by promient researchers, organized to reveal currents of ongoing research, connections to neighboring areas of psychology, and controversies within the field.
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A very good overview of the psychology of decision making,
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This review is from: Research on Judgment and Decision Making: Currents, Connections, and Controversies (Paperback)
The book provides articles by the leading authors in the filed of the psychology of decison making. It provides a good overview of the field and groups together various directions in the field. However the "grouping" are not strong categories and do not hold together very well. Nothless it is a brave attempt to connect various trains of thought.I tried to use the book as a text book in a class on the psychology of decison making and found that it was not very user friendly. I did use select reading from it which were very successful. All in all, anyone involved in the field of the psychology of decison making MUST own this book. Other readers outside of the field should make sure the book covers the topics in which they are intrested.
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A very good overview of the psychology of decision making,
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This review is from: Research on Judgment and Decision Making: Currents, Connections, and Controversies (Paperback)
The book provides articles by the leading authors in the filed of the psychology of decison making. It provides a good overview of the field and groups together various directions in the field. However the "grouping" are not strong categories and do not hold together very well. Nothless it is a brave attempt to connect various trains of thought.I tried to use the book as a text book in a class on the psychology of decison making and found that it was not very user friendly. I did use select reading from it which were very successful. All in all, anyone involved in the field of the psychology of decison making MUST own this book. Other readers outside of the field should make sure the book covers the topics in which they are intrested. |
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