Judgment and Decision-Making

In the Lab and the World

Nancy S. Kim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-137-26955-3 (ISBN)

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How do we make the judgments that inform our lives? Is there any way of consciously removing bias from the choices we make? What do our everyday personal decisions have in common with those made by groups, companies, and even nations? In this engaging and innovative textbook, Nancy Kim presents a multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of judgment and decision-making. This lucidly written text delivers insights from cognitive psychology, aptly combining with interdependent findings from fields as diverse as neuropsychology, behavioural economics, social, developmental and clinical psychology, and philosophy. Offering not only a comprehensive explanation of the neurological structures and cognitive processes that underlie how we make decisions and form judgments in our everyday lives, readers can expect to learn the implications of these decisions upon an individual’s prospects for health and longevity.

Understanding behaviour is a central aspect of inquiry in the psychology discipline and as such this book is an essential companion for students taking undergraduate psychology, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience courses; particularly those which include a module in judgment and decision-making. This text may also be helpful for undergraduate and postgraduate business courses on the subject.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/judgment-and-decision-making. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Nancy S. Kim is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University, USA. Her research focuses on health-related judgment and decision-making by lay people, patients, clinical trainees and practicing clinicians. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on judgment and decision-making, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

1: Introduction
2: Representativeness and Availability
3: Hindsight Bias
4: Anchoring and Primacy Effects in Judgment
5: Mental Accounting and Choice
6: Schemas and Framework Theories
7: Expected Utility Theory
8: Framing Effects and Prospect Theory
9: Judging Covariation, Contingency, and Cause
10: Hypothesis Testing and Confirmation Bias
11: Risk Assessment
12: Prediction
13: Belief
14: Moral Judgment and Cooperation.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
Schlagworte	Adjustment • Assessment • Decision Making • Decision-Making • Happiness • self
ISBN-10	1-137-26955-3 / 1137269553
ISBN-13	978-1-137-26955-3 / 9781137269553
Zustand	Neuware