Thinking and Deciding - Jonathan Baron

Thinking and Deciding

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Buch | Softcover
604 Seiten
1994 | 2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-43732-5 (ISBN)
29,85 inkl. MwSt
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A thorough examination of the psychology of thinking and decision making.
How should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? And how can we improve our thinking and decision making? The primary focus of Jonathan Baron's text is on the second question, but he considers all three in this lively three-part introduction to current research and theory. Part I offers a broad overview of thinking, including its role in problem solving and its relation to learning, intelligence, creativity, and logic. Part II deals with the formation of beliefs and the making of judgments. Part III concerns decisions, morality, intertemporal choice, and the choice of goals. In response to latest developments in decision making, Jonathan Baron has updated and expanded his important book, Thinking and Deciding and has also added a new chapter on fairness.

1. Introduction; 1. Thinking in general; 2. The study of thinking; 3. Good thinking: the nature of rationality; 4. Problem solving; 5. Learning: basic processes; 6. Learning: complex material; 7. Intelligence and creativity; 8. The teaching of thinking; 9. Formal logic; 10. Logic and everyday reasoning; 11. Normative theory of probability; 12. Descriptive theory of probability judgment; 13. Hypothesis testing; 14. Judgment of correlation and contingency; 15. Biases and beliefs; 16. Normative theory of utility and choice; 17. Decision analysis and utility measurement; 18. Descriptive theory of choice under uncertainty; 19. Description of choice under certainty; 20. Quantitative judgment; 21. Moral thinking; 22. Fairness; 23. Social dilemmas: cooperation versus defection; 24. Decisions about the future.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.6.1994
Zusatzinfo 33 Tables, unspecified; 37 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 816 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-521-43732-6 / 0521437326
ISBN-13 978-0-521-43732-5 / 9780521437325
Zustand Neuware
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