Judgment and Decision Making Psychological Perspectives [Paperback]

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• An accessible examination of the wide variety of ways people make judgments
  
• Features up-to-date theoretical coverage, including perspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience
  
• Covers dynamic decision making, everyday decision making, individual differences, group decision making, and the nature of mind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making
  
• Illustrates key concepts with boxed case studies and cartoons

1. Introduction and Overview: Judgments, Decisions, and Rationality.

2. The Nature and Analysis of Judgment.

3. Judging Probability and Frequency.

4. Judgmental Distortions: The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic and Hindsight Bias.

5. Assessing Evidence and Evaluating Arguments.

6. Covariation, Causation, and Counterfactual Thinking.

7. Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty.

8. Preference and Choice.

9. Confidence and Optimism.

10. Judgment and Choice over Time.

11. Dynamic Decisions and High Stakes: Where Real Life Meets the Laboratory.

12. Risk.

13. Decision Making in Groups and Teams.

14. Cooperation and Coordination.

15. Intuition, Reflective Thinking, and the Brain.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index