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 the broader roles of social, emotional, and cultural influences on decision making.
- Explores applications of judgment and decision making research to important problems in a variety of professional contexts, including finance, accounting, medicine, public policy, and the law.
List of Contributors.
List of Figures and Tables.
Preface.
Part I: Approaches:.
1. Rationality and the Normative/Descriptive Distinction: David Over (University Of Sunderland).
2. Normative Models of Judgment and Decision Making: Jonathan Baron (University Of Pennsylvania).
3. Social Judgment Theory: Applying and Extending Brunswik’s Probabilistic Functionalism: William M. Goldstein (University Of Chicago).
4. Fast and Frugal Heuristics: The Tools of Bounded Rationality: Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute For Human Development).
5. Yet Another Look at the Heuristics and Biases Approach: Gideon Keren (Eindhoven University Of Technology) And Karl H. Teigen (University Of Oslo).
6. Walking with the Scarecrow: The Information-lC\