Hardman D. Thinking Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making

Wiley, 2010 — 392 p.The first international handbook to bring the areas of reasoning, judgment and decision making together, now in paperback format.
The book brings three of the important topics of thinking together - reasoning, judgment and decision making and discusses key issues in each area. The studies described range from those that are purely laboratory based to those that involve experts making real world judgments, in areas such as medical and legal decision making and political and economic forecasting.
International collection of original chapters by leading researchers in the field
Several chapters contain important new theoretical perspectives
Paperback version is more affordable for individual researchersList of ContributorsA Theory of Hypothetical Thinking
Individual Differences in the Development of Reasoning Strategies
Generalising Individual Differences and Strategies Across Different Deductive Reasoning Domains
Superordinate Principles, Conditions and Conditionals
Premise Interpretation in Conditional Reasoning
Probabilities and Pragmatics in Conditional Inference: Suppression and Order Effects
Verbal Expressions of Uncertainty and Probability
Possibilities and Probabilities
The Partitive Conditional Probability
Naive and yet Enlightened: From Natural Frequencies to Fast and Frugal Decision Trees
More is not Always Better: The Benefits of Cognitive Limits
Correspondence and Coherence: Indicators of Good Judgment in World Politics
Cognitive Mapping of Causal Reasoning in Strategic Decision Making
Belief and Preference in Decision Under Uncertainty
Medical Decision Scripts: Combining Cognitive Scripts and Judgment Strategies to Account Fully for Medical Decision Making
On the Assessment of Decision Quality: Considerations Regarding Utility, Conflict and Accountability
Author Index
Subject Index