Introduction: where to decision making Sandra L. Schneider and James Shanteau; Part I. Fortifying Traditional Models of Decision Making: 1. Hard decisions, bad decisions: on decision quality and decision aiding J. Frank Yates, Elizabeth S. Veinott and Andrea L. Patalano; 2. Rationality in choice under certainty and uncertainty R. Duncan Luce; 3. Generalization across people, procedures, and predictions: violations of stochastic dominance and coalescing Michael Binbaum and Teresa Martin; 4. Can l'homme eclaire be fast and frugal? Reconciling Bayesianism and bounded rationality Laura Martignon and Stefan Krauss; Part II. Elaborating Cognitive Processes in Decision Making: 5. Memory as a fundamental heuristic for decision making Michael R. P. Dougherty, Scott D. Gronlund and Charles F. Gettys; 6. Comprehension and decision making David A. Rettinger and Reid Hastie; 7. Memory, development, and rationality: an integrative theory of judgment and decision making Valerie F. Reyna, Farrell J. Lloyd and Charles J. Brainerd; 8. Integrating themes from cognitive and social cognitive development into the study of judgment and decision making Beth A. Haines and Colleen Moore; Part III. Incorporating Affect and Motivation in Decision Making: 9. Values, affect and processes in human decision making: a differentiation and consolidation theory perspective Ola Svenson; 10. Judgment and decision making: the dance of affect and reason Melissa Finucane, Ellen Peters and Paul Slovic; 11. Some ways in which positive affect facilitates decision making and judgment Alice Isen and Aparna A. Labroo; 12. What do people really want? Goals and context in decision making Sandra L. Schneider and Monica D. Barnes; Part IV. Understanding Social and Cultural Influences on Decision: 13. Bridging individual, interpersonal, and institutional approaches to judgment and decision making: the impact of accountability on cognitive bias Jennifer S. Lerner and Philip E. Tetlock; 14. Cognitions, preferences, and social sharedness: past, present, and future directions in group decision making Tatsuya Kameda, R. Scott Tindale and James Davis; 15. The accentuation principle in social judgment: a connectionist reappraisal J. Richard Eiser; 16. The socio-cultural contexts of decision making in organizations Mark F. Peterson, Shaila Miranda, Peter B. Smith and Valerie M. Haskell; Part V. Facing the Challenge of Real-World Complexity in Decisions: 17. The naturalistic decision making perspective Rebecca Pliske and Gary Klein; 18. Command style and team performance in dynamic decision making tasks Julia Clancy, Glenn Elliott, Tobias Ley, Jim McLennan, Mary Omodei, Einar Thorsteinsson and Alexander Wearing; 19. How can you tell if someone is an expert? Performance-based assessment of expertise James Shanteau, David Weiss, Rickey Thomas and Julia Pounds; Commentary. Optimists, pessimists, and realists Michael Doherty.