Current themes in psychological decision research : selected proceedings of the 13th Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making, Fribourg, Switzerland, August 1991
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Current themes in psychological decision research : selected proceedings of the 13th Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making, Fribourg, Switzerland, August 1991
North-Holland, 1993
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Acta psychologica
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"Reprinted from the journal Acta psychologica, vol. 80, 1992" -- t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Research dealing with judgement and decision making is explored in depth by the contributors to this volume. Specialists across a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, operations research, computer science, political science and economics, they consider the basic and applied issues concering the field. The first section of the book deals with prescriptive decision science - from the identification and examination of the theory itself, through to specific problems related to the practical application of various concepts. The second section investigates decision making processes and discusses a variety of aspects of both expert and lay decision making. Social decision making is considered in the final section, including group decision making and decision making concerning large-scale societal issues and risk-communication. It is hoped that the important topics for future research proposed in the book will stimulate the development of new technologies and advance the expansion of knowledge in the area.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Prescriptive decision science: the presumptions of prescription, S.R. Watson
- towards a research agenda for prescriptive decision science - the normative tempered by the descriptive, R. Brown and A. Vari
- multi-attribute decision support and complexity - an evaluation and process analysis of aided versus unaided decision making, D. Timmermans and Ch. Vlek
- evaluating options by combined qualitative and quantitative methods, M. Bohanec et al
- selecting a best multiattribute alternative with partial information about attribute weights, F.H. Barron. Part 2 Decision-making processes: a constructive process view of decision making - multiple strategies in judgment and choice, J.W. Payne et al
- differentiation and consolidation theory of human decision making - a frame of reference for the study of pre- and post-decision processes, O. Svenson
- response modes, decision processes and decision outcomes, M.R.M. Westenberg and P. Koele
- information search and choice accuracy as a function of task complexity and task structure, J.H. Kerstholt
- the function of concrete emotions in rational decision making, H.-R. Pfister and G. Boehm
- analyzing information search patterns to test the use of a two-phased decision strategy, M. Stokmans
- component processes of phased decision strategies, H. Gertzen. Part 3 Social decision making: behavioural decision theory and environmental risk management - assessment and resolution of four "survival" dilemmas, Ch. Vlek and G. Keren
- how to improve our understanding of group decision making with the help of artificial intelligence, W.B.G. Liebrand
- simulataneous vs. sequential requests in resource dilemmas with incomplete information, D.V. Budescu et al
- evidence for an equality heuristic in social decision making, D.M. Messick and T. Schnell
- risk and behaviour - the mediating role of risk appraisal, W. Otten and J. van der Pligt.
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