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Thinking and Deciding

Authors

Jonathan Baron
, University of Pennsylvania
Published 2023

Description

The fifth edition of the classic text Thinking and Deciding updates the broad overview of the field of judgments and decisions offered in previous editions. It covers the normative standards used to evaluate conclusions, such as logic, probability, and various forms of utility theory. It explains descriptive accounts of departures from these standards, largely in terms of principles of cognitive psychology, emphasizing the distinction between search processes and inferences. Chapters cover decisions under risk, decision analysis, moral decisions and social…

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Key features

  • Introduces and analyzes the field in terms of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive models and approaches
  • Assumes no prior college-level math coursework
  • Written as a whole, yet chapters may be used modularly to fit different course outlines

About the book

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009263672
  • Subjects Cognition,Psychology,Psychology Research Methods and Statistics
  • Format: Paperback
    • Publication date: 10 August 2023
    • ISBN: 9781009263641
    • Dimensions (mm): 229 x 152 mm
    • Weight: 0.8kg
    • Page extent: 550 pages
    • Availability: Available
  • Format: Hardback
    • Publication date: 10 August 2023
    • ISBN: 9781009263634
    • Dimensions (mm): 229 x 152 mm
    • Weight: 0.918kg
    • Page extent: 550 pages
    • Availability: Available
  • Format: Digital
    • Publication date: 22 September 2023
    • ISBN: 9781009263672

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