Decision making under uncertainty : cognitive decision research, social interaction, development and epistemology /

This volume contains the revised papers of an international symposium on research on fallacies, biases, and the development of decision behavior under uncertainty. The papers are organized in five main sections. The Introduction outlines the conceptual framework and how three of the sections - Cogni...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Scholz, Roland W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., ©1983.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 16.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume contains the revised papers of an international symposium on research on fallacies, biases, and the development of decision behavior under uncertainty. The papers are organized in five main sections. The Introduction outlines the conceptual framework and how three of the sections - Cognitive Decision Research, Social Interaction, and Development and Epistemology - are interrelated and also how new fields, such as research into developmental questions, can be productively integrated. In the fifth section Comments are collected, which evaluate the impact of the contributions on decision research itself, and also on cognitive psychology, social psychology, economic theory, ant the discipline of mathematics education.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 445 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780080866703
0080866700