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Judgment and Decision Making: Psychological Perspectives

ISBN: 978-1-405-12398-3

February 2009

240 pages

Description
Judgment and Decision Making is a refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments.

  • An accessible examination of the wide variety of ways people make judgments
  • Features up-to-date theoretical coverage, including perspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience
  • Covers dynamic decision making, everyday decision making, individual differences, group decision making, and the nature of mind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making
  • Illustrates key concepts with boxed case studies and cartoons
About the Author
David Hardman has taught judgment and decision making at London Metropolitan University since 1998, where he is Principal Lecturer for Learning Development. He is co-editor of Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Psychology.
Features

  • An accessible examination of the wide variety of ways people make judgments

  • Features up-to-date theoretical coverage, including perspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience

  • Covers dynamic decision making, everyday decision making, individual differences, group decision making, and the nature of mind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making

  • Illustrates key concepts with boxed case studies and cartoons