Decision making: cognitive models and explanations

This book offers an exciting new collection of recent research on the actual processes that humans use when making decisions in their everyday lives and in business situations. The contributors use cognitive psychological techniques to break down the constituent processes and set them in their social context. The contributors are from many different countries and draw upon a wide range of techniques, making this book a valuable resource to cognitive psychologists in applied settings, economists and managers.


Contents
1. Cognitive process models and explanations of decision making / Ray Crozier and Rob Ranyard
2. Psychometric and methodological aspects of process tracing research / Johanna M. Harte and Pieter Koele
3. Personal involvement in human decision making: conceptualisations and effects on decision processes / Bas Verplanken and Ola Svenson
4. Aspects of compatibility and the construction of preference / Marcus Selart
5. Perspectives and emotions in personal decision making / Anna Blom Kemdal and Henry Montgomery
6. Is hate wiser than love? Cognitive and emotional utilities in decision making / Maria Lewicka
7. Anticipating the future: appraising risk and uncertainty / Karl Halvor Teigen and Wibecke Brun
8. Theoretical conceptions of framing effects in risky decisions / Anton Kuhberger
9. Beyond gambles and lotteries: naturalistic risky decisions / Oswald Huber.
10. Influences of the past on choices of the future / Tommy Garling, Niklas Karlsson and Joakim Romanus [et al.]
11. The effects of time pressure on human judgement and decision making / A. John Maule and Anne C. Edland
12. Decision making in dynamic task environments / Jose H. Kerstholt and Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers
13. Turning prior disadvantages into advantages: differentiation and consolidation in real-life decision making / Ola Svenson and Teci Hill
14. Post-decisional confidence - can it be trusted? / Dan Zakay.

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