Product Description

Judgment and Decision Making is a refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments.

• An accessible examination of the wide variety of ways people make judgments
  
• Features up–to–date theoretical coverage, including perspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience
  
• Covers dynamic decision making, everyday decision making, individual differences, group decision making, and the nature of mind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making
  
• Illustrates key concepts with boxed case studies and cartoons

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101216 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Review
"A refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgements." (The Psychologist, January 2009)

From the Back Cover
Judgment and Decision Making is a refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments. It examines assessments of probability, frequency and causation; as well as how decisions are rendered under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Topics covered include dynamic, everyday and group decision making; individual differences; and the nature of mind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making.

Offering up–to–date theoretical coverage, including perspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience, this volume has everything a psychology student needs for BPS accreditation, whilst drawing out the practical applications for non–psychology students with plentiful examples from business, economics, sport, law and medicine. The latest addition to the BPS Textbooks in Psychology series, this thorough text provides a succinct, reader–friendly account of the field of judgment and decision making.

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About the Author
David Hardman has taught judgment and decision making at London Metropolitan University since 1998, where he is Principal Lecturer for Learning Development. He is co–editor of Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Psychology.

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to the field
This book provides a clear, concise and up-to-date overview of the research in judgement and decision making. Would make an excellent course book, or even just a good introduction for the interested reader.

A very much needed book
In my studies on decision making and risk I found it extremely difficult to find any textbook which would treat the subject from a clearly psychological perspective. David Hardman's work is a great introduction to the subject with a great amount of relevant topics covered. The book is easy to read with enough content for everyone who is looking for a coherent and well presented framework of the subject.
Highly recommended.

Thanks to the author of Judgement and decision making:psychology perspective.
This book is really easy to understand for students who are new to decision making area. Adding pictures into writting style makes the topic more interesting. No jargons and complicated mathematics but sitll detailed into the subject area.I wish the book was available when I did my decision making course.