| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 508 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Philip H. Crowley and Thomas R. Zentall -- Economic decisions and institutional boundaries / Evelyn Korn and Johannes Ziesecke -- Why making a decision involves more than decision-making : past, present, and future in human action / Bertram C. Bruce -- Environmental decision making in the argentine delta / Stephanie C. Kane -- The social nature of human decision making / James D. Morrow -- Ambiguous decisions in the human brain / Ifat Levy -- What can neuroeconomics tell us about economics (and vice versa)? / Mark Dean -- Behavioral approaches to decision making / Edmund Fantino and Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino -- A behavioral ecology view of decision making : something old, something borrowed, something new / Andrew Sih -- Using evolutionary thinking to cut across disciplines : the example of the argumentative theory of reasoning / Hugo Mercier -- Poor decisions about security / Bruce Schneier and Deric Miller -- Increasing the accuracy of criminal justice decision-making / Sarah A -- Forensic judgment and decision-making / Peter A.F. Fraser-Mackenzie, Rebecca E. Bucht, & Itiel E. Dror -- Computational decision support : regret-based models for optimization and preference elicitation / Craig Boutilier -- Improving public policy decisions in creating institutions and markets to transfer natural disaster risk in developing countries / Jerry R. Skees and Grant Cavanaugh -- What the comparative approach to decision making has to offer / Philip H. Crowley and Thomas R. Zentall |
| Summary |
Decision making cuts across most areas of intellectual enquiry and academic endeavour. The classical view of individual human thinkers choosing among options remains important and instructive, but the contributors to this volume broaden this perspective to characterise the decision making behaviour of groups, non-human organisms and even non-living objects and mathematical constructs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Decision making.
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decision making.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Decision making
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zentall, Thomas R
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Crowley, Philip H
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| ISBN |
0199301506 |
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9780199301508 |
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9780199856817 |
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0199856818 |
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