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Thinking and deciding

Title
Thinking and deciding / Jonathan Baron.
Author
Baron, Jonathan, 1944-
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2000.

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Description
xiv, 570 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"Thinking and Deciding has established itself as a required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human judgments, decisions, and rationality. In this, the third edition, Jonathan Baron delves further into many of the key questions addressed in the previous editions. For example, how should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? Baron has also revised or expanded his treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Bayes's theorem, utility measurement, decision analysis and values. By emphasizing decision making, Baron has made Thinking and Deciding, Third Edition, more relevant to researchers in applied fields, such as medicine, business, public policy, and law, while maintaining its appeal to graduate and undergraduate students."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Thought and thinking
  • Decision making
  • Decision Making
  • Thinking
  • thinking
  • decision making
  • Decision making
  • Thought and thinking
  • Denken
  • Entscheidung
  • Problemlösen
  • Psychologie
  • Denken
  • Besluitvorming
  • Decision making > Psychological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-554) and indexes.
Contents
I. Thinking in general. What is thinking? -- The study of thinking -- Good thinking : the nature of rationality -- Logic -- II. Probability and belief. Normative theory of probability -- Descriptive of probability judgment -- Hypothesis testing -- Judgment of correlation and contingency -- Actively open-minded thinking -- III. Decisions and plans. Normative theory of choice -- Description of choice under certainty -- Choice under certainty -- Utility measurement -- Decision analysis and values -- Quantitative judgment -- Moral thinking -- Fairness and justice -- Social dilemmas -- Decisions about the future -- Risk.
ISBN
  • 0521650305
  • 9780521650304
  • 0521659728
  • 9780521659727
  • 0521659272
  • 9780521659277
LCCN
  • 00033670
  • 9780521659277
  • 9780521650304
OCLC
  • ocm43985515
  • 43985515
  • SCSB-1207806
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library