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Summary
Summary
The first international handbook to bring the areas of reasoning,judgment and decision making together, now in paperback format.
The book brings three of the important topics of thinkingtogether - reasoning, judgment and decision making â? anddiscusses key issues in each area. The studies described range fromthose that are purely laboratory based to those that involveexperts making real world judgments, in areas such as medical andlegal decision making and political and economic forecasting.
* International collection of original chapters by leadingresearchers in the field
* Several chapters contain important new theoreticalperspectives
* Paperback version is more affordable for individualresearchers
Author Notes
Edited by Dr David Hardman, London Metropolitan University, UK and Professor Laura Macchi, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors |
| Introduction |
| Part I Reasoning |
| Chapter 1 A Theory of Hypothetical ThinkingJonathan St. B.T. Evans and David E. Over and Simon J. Handley |
| Chapter 2 Individual Differences in the Development of Reasoning StrategiesMaxwell J. Roberts and Elizabeth J. Newton |
| Chapter 3 Generalising Individual Differences and Strategies Across Different Deductive Reasoning DomainsPadraic Monaghan and Keith Stenning |
| Chapter 4 Superordinate Principles, Conditions and ConditionalsNeil Fairley and Ken Manktelow |
| Chapter 5 Premise Interpretation in Conditional ReasoningGuy Politzer |
| Chapter 6 Probabilities and Pragmatics in Conditional Inference: Suppression and Order EffectsMike Oaksford and Nick Chater |
| Part II Judgment |
| Chapter 7 Verbal Expressions of Uncertainty and ProbabilityKarl Halvor Teigen and Wibecke Brun |
| Chapter 8 Possibilities and ProbabilitiesPaolo Legrenzi and Vittorio Girotto and Maria Sonino Legrenzi and Philip N. Johnson-Laird |
| Chapter 9 The Partitive Conditional ProbabilityLaura Macchi |
| Chapter 10 Naive and yet Enlightened: From Natural Frequencies to Fast and Frugal Decision TreesLaura Martignon and Oliver Vitouch and Masanori Takezawa and Malcolm R. Forster |
| Chapter 11 More is not Always Better: The Benefits of Cognitive LimitsRalph Hertwig and Peter M. Todd |
| Chapter 12 Correspondence and Coherence: Indicators of Good Judgment in World PoliticsPhilip E. Tetlock |
| Part III Decision Making |
| Chapter 13 Cognitive Mapping of Causal Reasoning in Strategic Decision MakingA. John Maule and Gerard P. Hodgkinson and Nicola J. Bown |
| Chapter 14 Belief and Preference in Decision Under UncertaintyCraig R. Fox and Kelly E. See |
| Chapter 15 Medical Decision Scripts: Combining Cognitive Scripts and Judgment Strategies to Account Fully for Medical Decision MakingRobert M. Hamm |
| Chapter 16 On the Assessment of Decision Quality: Considerations Regarding Utility, Conflict and AccountabilityGideon Keren and Wandi Bruine de Bruin |
| Author Index |
| Subject Index |
