Thinking and Deciding

By J. Baron. 2023

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The fifth edition of the classic text Thinking and Deciding updates the broad overview of the field of judgments and decisions offered in previous editions. It covers the normative standards used to evaluate conclusions, such as logic, probability, and various forms of utility theory. It explains descriptive accounts of departures from these standards, largely in terms of principles of cognitive psychology, emphasizing the distinction between search processes and inferences. Chapters cover decisions under risk, decision analysis, moral decisions and social dilemmas, and decisions about the future. Although the book assumes no particular prerequisites beyond introductory high-school algebra, it is most suited to advanced undergraduates, early graduate students, and active researchers in related fields, such as business, politics, law, medicine, economics, and philosophy.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences

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The effect of argumentative task goal on the quality of argumentative discourse (2013, neutral): “, rebuttals or qualifiers), or to the implementation of complex discourse structures, presupposing a high-level of metacognitive knowing, such as the consistent consideration of alternative viewpoints throughout one’s argumentation, and the avoidance of “my-bias” perspectives (Baron, 2000). Followin”
The development of risk-taking: A multi-perspective review (2006, background): “As such, a very brief review of adult judgment and decision-making research, as it relates to risk-taking, is in order (for a more extensive review see Baron, 2000; or Mellers, Schwartz, & Cooke, 1998).”
Self-determination. The tyranny of freedom. (2000, positive): “Human beings violate the principles of rational choice routinely (e.g., Kahneman & Tversky, 1979, 1984; Tversky & Kahneman, 1981; see Baron, 1994; Schwartz, 1986, 1994, for discussion ), and the cause and character of many of these violations cannot be understood without understanding the nature…”
Psychology Models of Management Accounting (2010, background): “Cognitive task analysis is an area of psychology research that provides descriptions and analyses of the knowledge and cognitive activities required for high performance on specific tasks (Baron, 1988; Peters, 1993; Schraagen et al., 2000).”
The development of scientific reasoning skills. (2000, background): “Confirmation bias refers to the general tendency of participants to propose triads that conform to—and thus if found to be such confirm—the hypothesis under consideration (Baron, 1994; Koslowski & Maqueda, 1993).”
Senior high school students' preference and reasoning modes about nuclear energy use (2003, background): “In such a process, personal beliefs, values and emotions play a significant role in determining the weights of possibilities (Simon 1978, Bell 1982, Baron 1988, Tversky and Shafir 1992).”
The locus of the myside bias in written argumentation (2008, background): “It is possible that people engage in selective exposure to information, seeking myside information to confirm their beliefs and weak or foolish other side arguments that would also strengthen their beliefs (see Baron, 1988, for a review of the literature on selective exposure).”
Distributionally Robust Markov Decision Processes (2010, background): “This approach addresses the famous neglect of probability cognitive bias [23], i.”
Exploring the adoption and processing of online holiday reviews: A grounded theory approach (2011, background): “In turn, ‘confirmation bias’ (Baron, 2000; Edwards & Smith, 1996; Nickerson, 1998; Wason, 1960) refers to the selective filtering of information in accordance with one’s preconceptions.”
Improving Measurements of Self-Regulated Learning (2010, methodology): “Are methods the learner uses inaccurate or biased in the same ways as other forms of cognition are distorted by heuristics and biases (e.g., see Baron, 2008).”
From IQ to IC: A dispositional view of intelligence (2001, background): “Baron (1988) acknowledges the volitional aspect of dispositions while stressing their acquired nature.”