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Author Hammond, Kenneth R.

Title Beyond rationality : the search for wisdom in a troubled time / Kenneth R. Hammond
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents The new search for wisdom -- Strategies of human judgment -- Tactics of human judgment -- Themes guiding research -- Looking backward
Summary With Beyond Rationality, Kenneth R. Hammond, one of the most respected and experienced experts in judgment and decision-making, sums up his life's work and persuasively argues that decisions should be based on balance and pragmatism rather than rigid ideologies. Hammond has long focused on the dichotomy between theories of correspondence, whereby arguments correspond with reality, and coherence, whereby arguments strive to be internally consistent. He has persistently proposed a middle approach that draws from both of these modes of thought and so avoids the blunders of either extreme. In this
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index
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Subject Judgment.
Decision making.
Judgment
Decision Making
decision making.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
Decision making
Judgment
Beoordeling.
Besluitvorming.
Politieke psychologie.
Genre/Form Judgment
Form Electronic book
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