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Thinking and Deciding Jonathan Baron (University of Pennsylvania)

Thinking and Deciding By Jonathan Baron (University of Pennsylvania)

Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron (University of Pennsylvania)


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Summary

Thinking and Deciding has established itself as a required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. By emphasizing decision making, Baron has made Thinking and Deciding more relevant to researchers in applied fields while maintaining its appeal to graduate and undergraduate students.

Thinking and Deciding Summary

Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron (University of Pennsylvania)

Thinking and Deciding has established itself as a required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the third edition, Jonathan Baron delves further into many of the key questions addressed in the previous editions. For example, how should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? Baron has also revised or expanded his treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye's theorem, moral thinking, trust, utility measurement, and decision analysis and values. By emphasizing decision making, Baron has made Thinking and Deciding, Third Edition more relevant to researchers in applied fields, such as medicine, business, public policy, and law, while maintaining its appeal to graduate and undergraduate students.

Thinking and Deciding Reviews

Baron has taken on the task of examining in detail the full range and diversity of psychological research which helps him and us to understand the nature of thinking as he sees it, and to explore its application to teaching. It is a heroic effort, and thoroughly recommended. Times Higher Education Supplement
This magisterial book...lays out the issues in exemplary fashion....The explanations of prospect theory and rank-dependent utility theories...are as clear as any I have read. They are well suited for an introductory graduate course in the field and for health professional in all fields....This book is as balanced and clear as one is likely to find. It is an outstanding introduction to and summary of the psychology of decision making and should be widely read. Medical Decision Making

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Thinking in General: 1. What is thinking?; 2. The study of thinking; 3. Good thinking: the nature of rationality; 4. Logic; Part II. Probability and Belief: 5. Normative theory of probability; 6. Descriptive theory of probability judgment; 7. Hypothesis testing; 8. Judgment of correlation and contingency; 9. Actively open minded thinking; Part III. Decisions and Plans: 10. Normative theory of choice; 11. Description of choice under uncertainty; 12. Description of choice under certainty; 13. Utility measurement; 14. Decision analysis and values; 15. Quantitative judgment; 16. Moral thinking; 17. Fairness and justice; 18. Social dilemmas; 19. Decisions about the future; 20. Risk.

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GOR001809128
9780521659727
0521659728
Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron (University of Pennsylvania)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
20001228
576
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