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  • Explaining the Evidence

    How the Mind Investigates the World

    by David A. Lagnado ...
    How do we make sense of complex evidence? What are the cognitive principles that allow detectives to solve crimes, and lay people to puzzle out everyday problems? To address these questions, David Lagnado presents a novel perspective on human reasoning. At heart, we are causal thinkers driven to explain the myriad ways in which people behave and interact. We build mental models of the world, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Straight Choices

    The Psychology of Decision Making

    by Ben R. Newell, David A. Lagnado, David R. Shanks ...
    Straight Choices provides a fascinating introduction to the psychology of decision making, enhanced by discussion of relevant examples of decision problems faced in everyday life. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, this edition provides an integrative account of the psychology of decision-making and shows how psychological research can help us understand our uncertain world.The book ... Read more

    Was $66.99 USD Now $59.99 USD

  • Judgement and Choice: Perspectives on the Work of Daniel Kahneman

    A Special Issue of Thinking and Reasoning

    Edited by David Lagnado, Daniel Read ...
    Series series Special Issues of Thinking and Reasoning
    The work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has transformed the study of judgment and decision-making, and penetrated related disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, law and medicine. In recognition of these achievements, Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003. This special issue presents ongoing research inspired by both Kahneman and Tversky. It covers many of the ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • Judgment under Uncertainty

    Heuristics and Biases

    Edited by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky ...
    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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

    by Keith E. Stanovich ...
    Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman—have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Heuristics and Biases

    The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

    Edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman ...
    Is our case strong enough to go to trial? Will interest rates go up? Can I trust this person? Such questions - and the judgments required to answer them - are woven into the fabric of everyday experience. This book, first published in 2002, examines how people make such judgments. The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s, when Kahneman and Tversky introduced their 'heuristics and ... Read more

    $67.29 USD

  • Research Methods

    How to Design and Conduct a Successful Project

    by Dr. Peter Marshall ...
    All social science courses offered at universities include a research methods module. This book explains the various methods available to social researchers, and the basic principles, strengths and weaknesses involved in the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    by Baruch Fischhoff ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics, decision theory, management science). It employs both empirical methods, to study how decisions are actually made, and analytical ones, to study how decisions should be made and how consequential ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Framing

    Edited by Gideon Keren ...
    Series series The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series
    Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication, idea, or intention can be articulated in different ways—in other words, the same message can be "framed" differently. The same medical treatment can be portrayed in terms chance of chance of success or ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Rationality Quotient

    Toward a Test of Rational Thinking

    by Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, Maggie E. Toplak ...
    How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills.Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis of 2008. Smart people do foolish things because intelligence ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Research Design

    Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

    by Stephen Gorard ...
    Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and substantially reducing the number of alternative explanations for any finite number of research ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Vital statistics - E-Book

    An introduction to health science statistics

    by Stephen McKenzie ...
    Vital Statistics: an introduction to health science statistics e-book is a new Australian publication. This textbook draws on real world, health-related and local examples, with a broad appeal to the Health Sciences student. It demonstrates how an understanding of statistics is useful in the real world, as well as in statistics exams. Vital Statistics: an introduction to health science statistics ... Read more

    $30.59 USD