Judgment and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making)

About this book

Researchers in a growing number of fields--public policy law business medicine psychology engineering and others--are working to understand and improve human judgment and decision making. This book which presupposes no formal training brings together a selection of key articles in the area with careful organization introduction and commentaries. Issues involving medical diagnosis weather forecasting labor negotiations risk public policy business strategy eyewitnesses and jury decisions are treated in this largely expanded volume. This is a revision of Arkes and Hammonds 1986 collection on judgment and decision making. Updated and extended the focus of this volume is interdisciplinary and applied.