Judgment and decision making as a skill
Subtitle: learning, development, and evolution
By: edited by Mandeep K. Dhami, Anne Schlottmann, and Michael R. Waldmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780521767811
Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; Judgment; Decision making
Description: "This book presents a comprehensive review of emerging theories and research on the dynamic nature of human judgment and decision making (JDM). Leading researchers in the fields of JDM, cognitive development, human learning and neuroscience discuss short-term and long-term changes in JDM skills. The authors consider how such skills increase and decline on a developmental scale in children, adolescents and the elderly; how they may be learned; and how JDM skills can be improved and aided. In addition, beyond these behavioral approaches to understanding JDM as a skill, the book provides fascinating new insights from recent evolutionary and neuropsychological approaches. The authors identify opportunities for future research on the acquisition and changing nature of JDM. In a concluding chapter, eminent past presidents of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making provide personal reflections and perspectives on the notion of JDM as a dynamic skill"--

"Our scientific understanding of human Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) has grown considerably over the past 60 years in terms of the normative benchmarks (or standards) by which we assess performance, the descriptive models we use to describe JDM, and the prescriptive solutions we offer to improve JDM. Indeed, policy and practice in several domains such as education, management, and medicine have benefited from the findings of JDM research. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the theoretical literature and empirical research has discussed human JDM with little reference to its changing or dynamic nature. This is partly due to the historic coincidence that the field of JDM developed in competition with static economic models, such as expected utility theory, and to limiting methodological commitments such as investigating JDM in single-trial, cross-sectional studies with the primary focus on cognitively fully functioning adults"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface Mandeep K. Dhami, Anne Schlottmann and Michael R. Waldmann; Part I. Evolutionary and Neural Bases of JDM: 1. The evolved foundations of decision making Peter M. Todd and Andreas Wilke; 2. Neural bases of judgment and decision making strategies Oshin Vartanian and David R. Mandel; Part II. Developmental Approaches to JDM: 3. Judgment and decision making in young children Anne Schlottmann and Friedrich Wikening; 4. Judgment and decision making in adolescents Wa;ndi Brunie de Bruin; 5. Aging and decision skills Ellen Peters and Wa;ndi Brunie de Bruin; Part III. Learning JDM: 6. Learning of judgment and decision making strategies Rui Mata and Jörg Rieskamp; 7. Casual models in judgment and decision making York Hagmayer and David Lagnado; 8. Learning judgment and decision making from feedback Nigel Harvey; Part IV. Improving and Aiding JDM: 9. Improving judgment and decision making through communication Peter Sedlmeier and Denis Hilton; 10. Aiding judgment and decision making J. Frank Yates and Andrea M. Angott; Conclusion; 11. Perspectives on judgment and decision making as a skill James Shanteau, Thomas S. Wallsten, Baruch Fischhoff, Irwin P. Levin, J. A. Weller, E. A. Bossard, Valerie F. Reyna, Jonathan Baron, Joshua Klayman, Robin M. Hogarth and Michael Birnbaum.