Judgment and decision making as a skill : learning, development, and evolution

This book presents a comprehensive review of both theories and research on the dynamic nature of human judgment and decision making (JDM). Leading researchers in the fields of JDM, cognitive development, human learning and neuroscience discuss short-term and long-term changes in JDM skills. The authors consider how such skills increase and decline on a developmental scale in children, adolescents and the elderly; how they may be learned; and how JDM skills can be improved and aided. In addition, beyond these behavioral approaches to understanding JDM as a skill, the book provides fascinating new insights from recent evolutionary and neuropsychological approaches. The authors identify opportunities for future research on the acquisition and changing nature of JDM. In a concluding chapter, eminent past presidents of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making provide personal reflections and perspectives on the notion of JDM as a dynamic skill.

Author Notes

Mandeep K. Dhami received her Ph.D. in Psychology from City University, London in 2001. Before joining the University of Cambridge in 2005, she held academic appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany; University of Maryland, USA; and University of Victoria, Canada.
Anne Schlottmann studied at the Ruhr Universitt Bochum, then went on a Fulbright scholarship to the University of California, San Diego, where she received her Ph.D. in 1991. Since then she has been at University College London where she is now a Senior Lecturer in the Developmental Science Department.
Michael R. Waldmann was a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Germany, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Munich. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Psychology at the University of Gttingen.

Andreas Wilke and Peter M. ToddOshin Vartanian and David R. MandelAnne Schlottmann and Friedrich WilkeningWändi Bruine De BruinEllen Peters and Wändi Bruine De BruinRui Mata and Jörg RieskampYork Hagmayer and David A. LagnadoNigel HarveyPeter Sedlmeier and Denis J. HiltonJ. Frank Yates and Andrea M. AngottMandeep K. Dhami and Anne Schlottmann and Michael R. Waldmann and James Shanteau and Thomas S. Wallsten and Baruch Fischhoff and Irwin P. Levin and Joshua A. Weller and Elaine A. Bossard and Valerie F. Reyna and Jonathan Baron and Robin M. Hogarth and Joshua Klayman and Michael H. Birnbaum

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Chapter cross-reference table	p. xv
Part I Evolutionary and neural bases of JDM	p. 1
1 The evolved foundations of decision making	p. 3
2 Neural bases of judgment and decision making	p. 29
Part II Developmental approaches to JDM	p. 53
3 Judgment and decision making in young children	p. 55
4 Judgment and decision making in adolescents	p. 85
5 Aging and decision skills	p. 113
Part III Learning JDM	p. 141
6 Learning of judgment and decision-making strategies	p. 143
7 Causal models in judgment and decision making	p. 169
8 Learning judgment and decision making from feedback	p. 199
Part IV Improving and aiding JDM	p. 227
9 Improving judgment and decision making through communication and representation	p. 229
10 Aiding judgment and decision making	p. 259
Conclusion	p. 289
11 Perspectives on judgment and decision making as a skill	p. 291
Index	p. 307

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