Problem solving, decision making, and professional judgment : a guide for lawyers and policy makers
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Problem solving, decision making, and professional judgment : a guide for lawyers and policy makers
Oxford University Press, c2010
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Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers will prepare students and professionals for their roles as creative problem solvers. Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger discuss essential qualities of practical wisdom that are important across disciplines and essential to one's everyday life as a decisionmaker, consumer, and citizen. This book can stand alone as a text or work as a supplement to a core law
or public policy curriculum.
Professor Brest and Professor Krieger aim to prepare students to exercise problem solving and decision making skills in the complex social environments in which they will work. They include bodies of knowledge drawn from statistics, decision science, social and cognitive psychology, and "judgment and decision making" (JDM) psychological literature. They combine quantitative approaches to empirical analysis and decisionmaking (statistics and decision science) with the psychological literature
that demonstrates the systematic errors of the intuitive and social empiricist or decisionmaker. Their ultimate goal is to help readers "get it right" in their roles as professionals, citizens, and individuals.
Table of Contents
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISIONMAKING
Chapter 0. Preface
Chapter 1. The Lawyer and Policymaker as Problem solver and Decisionmaker: The Roles of Deliberation, Intuition, and Expertise
Chapter 2. Framing Problems and Identifying Objectives And Identifying Problem Causes
Chapter 3. Generating Alternatives: Creativity in Legal and Policy Problem Solving
Chapter 4. Choosing Among Alternatives
PART TWO
Making Sense of an Uncertain World
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter 5. Introduction to Statistics and Probability
Chapter 6. Scores, Dollars, and Other Quantitative Variables
Chapter 7. Interpreting Statistical Results
Chapter 8. Explaining and predicting one-time events
Chapter 9. Biases in Perception and Memory
Chapter 10. Biases in Processing and Judging Information
Chapter 11. The Social Perceiver: Processes and Problems in Social Cognition
PART THREE
MAKING DECISIONS
Introduction to Part Three
Chapter 12. Choices, Consequences, and Tradeoffs
Chapter 13. Complexities of Decisionmaking: Relationships to our Future Selves
Chapter 14. Complexities of Decisionmaking: The Power of Frames
Chapter 15. Decisionmaking Under risk
Chapter 16. The Role of Affect in Risky Decisions
Conclusion to Part Three
Part Four
Influencing Decisions
Introduction to Part Four
Chapter 17: Social Influence
Chapter 18: Influencing Behavior Through Cognition
Chapter 19. Group Decisionmaking
Chapter 20. Conclusion: Learning from Experience
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