Judgment under Uncertainty by Daniel Kahneman

Judgment under Uncertainty by Daniel Kahneman

The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical diagnosis, risk perception, and methods for correcting and improving judgments under uncertainty. About half of the chapters are edited versions of classic articles; the remaining chapters are newly written for this book. Most review multiple studies or entire subareas of research and application rather than describing single experimental studies. This book will be useful to a wide range of students and researchers, as well as to decision makers seeking to gain insight into their judgments and to improve them.

"The papers chosen for this volume are an excellent collection, generally well-written and fascinating" Journal of Economic Literature
"The examples are lively, the style is engaging, and it is as entertaining as it is enlightening." Times Literary Supplement
"...an important and well-written book." Journal of the American Statistical Association
"...a good collection of papers on an important topic." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
"Clearly, this is an important book. Anyone who undertakes judgment and decision research should own it." Contemporary Psychology

Paul Slovic, the company's founder and president, researches human judgment, decision-making, and risk assessment. He and his colleagues have created tools to describe risk perceptions and assess their effects on individuals, businesses, and society. He has a large number of publications and works as a consultant for industry and government. Dr. Slovic served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis and was honored with the organization's Outstanding Contribution Award in 1991. The American Psychological Society honored him with the Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award in 1993.

The Oregon Academy of Science honored him with the Distinguished Contribution to Science Award in 1995. The Stockholm School of Economics awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1996, and the University of East Anglia awarded him one in 2005. He has eight publications to his credit, the most recent of which are The Perception of Risk (2000) and The Social Amplification of Risk (2003).

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ISBN 13	9780521284141
ISBN 10	0521284147
Title	Judgment under Uncertainty
Author	Daniel Kahneman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1982-04-30
Number of pages	544
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