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Uncertainty : behavioral and social dimensions
- Title
- Uncertainty : behavioral and social dimensions / edited by Seymour Fiddle.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Praeger, 1980.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Fiddle, Seymour.
- Description
- viii, 401 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Praeger special studies
- Uniform Title
- Praeger special studies
- Subject
- Uncertainty > Social aspects
- Uncertainty
- Social prediction
- Decision making
- Probabilities
- Social psychology
- Uncertainty > Psychological aspects
- Decision Making
- Probability
- Psychology, Social
- decision making
- probability
- social psychology
- Uncertainty > Psychological aspects
- Social psychology
- Probabilities
- Decision making
- Social prediction
- Uncertainty
- Uncertainty > Social aspects
- Unsicherheit
- Onzekerheid
- Sociale aspecten
- Psychologische aspecten
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- General theoretical analysis. General introduction / Seymour Fiddle -- Uncertainty as a scientific concept and its application to the study of occupations and organizations / Paul Montagna -- Orientation to ambiguity / Allen Lerner -- Some comments on the role of social psychology in forecasting / Marie Jahoda -- Uncertainty, action, and competence : some alternatives to omniscience in complex problem solving / Terry Connolly -- Social behaviorist model of uncertainty in the process of symbolic interactions / Richard E. Sykes -- Organizational and individual responses to environmental uncertainty / James G. Hougland, Jon M. Shepard -- Cost benefit analysis : an uncertain guide to public policy / Baruch Fischhoff -- Uncertainty / Emmanuel Demby -- Theoretical analysis in specific subject areas. Health, uncertainty, and the action situation / Talcott Parsons -- Macro and micro uncertainty / George Katona -- Uncertainty, and models of urban travel behavior / Vincent B. Robinson -- Uncertainty in public opinion assessment / Robert Mason, G. David Faulkenberry -- Risk and uncertainty in political choice / Eugene J. Alpert -- Uncertainty in family life / Andrew Cherlin -- Clinical choice under uncertainty : its significance for regulating hospitalization rates / C.E. Brian Frost -- Specifically empirical studies in personal or organizational uncertainty. Uncertain timetables : a case of spare part surgery / Daniel J. Klenow, Fabio B. Dasilva -- Applied behavior under uncertainty / Peter Lorenzi -- Reducing uncertainty and building trust : the special case of actions / Robert E. Clark, Larry Halford -- Behavioral determinants of market failure : the case of disaster insurance / Ralph Ginsberg, Howard Kunreuther -- Hesitation phenomena and conversational style : indications of uncertainty in family situations / Fern L. Johnson, Leslie K. Davis -- Uncertainty in voluntary organizations the case of consumer food cooperatives / Michael Nagy.
- ISBN
- 0030570220
- 9780030570223
- 0275904806
- 9780275904807
- LCCN
- 80082073
- OCLC
- ocm07001126
- 7001126
- SCSB-9063291
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library