Choice, Decision, and Measurement: Essays in Honor of R. Duncan Luce

by Marley; A.A.J.

• ISBN13: 9780805822342
• ISBN10: 0805822348
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This volume is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, on the topics that provide its title -- choice, decision, and measurement. The conference was planned, and the volume prepared, in honor of Professor R. Duncan Luce on his 70th birthday. Following a short autobiographical statement by Luce, the volume is organized into four topics, to each of which Luce has made significant contributions. The book provides an overview of current issues in each area and presents some of the best recent theoretical and empirical work. Personal reflections on Luce and his work begin each section. These reflections were written by outstanding senior researchers: Peter Fishburn (Preference and Decision Making), Patrick Suppes (Measurement Theory and Axiomatic Systems), William J. McGill (Psychophysics and Reaction Time), and W.K. Estes (Choice, Identification and Categorization). The first section presents recent theoretical and empirical work on descriptive models of decision making, and theoretical results on general probabilistic models of choice and ranking. Luce's recent theoretical and empirical work on rank- and sign-dependent utility theory is important in many of these contributions. The second section presents results from psychophysics, probabilistic measurement, aggregation of expert opinion, and test theory. The third section presents various process oriented models, with supportive data, for tasks such as redundant signal detection, forced choice, and absolute identification. The final section contains theory and data on categorization and attention, and general theoretical results for developing and testing models in these domains.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(4)
List of Contributors	xiii	(2)
List of Referees	xv
PART 1. Introduction	3	(14)
The Past Seven Years: 1988-95	3	(14)
R. Duncan Luce
PART 2. Decision Making and Risk	17	(86)
Bookends: Recollections of a Decision Theorist	17	(8)
Peter Fishburn
Empirical Tests of Luce's Rank- and Sign-Dependent Utility Theory	25	(20)
Detlof von Winterfeldt
The Utility of Measuring and Modeling Perceived Risk	45	(12)
Elke U. Weber
Do Risk Attitudes Reflect in the Eye of the Beholder?	57	(16)
Barbara A. Mellers
Alan Schwartz
Elke U. Weber
Violations of Monotonicity in Judgment and Decision Making	73	(30)
Michael H. Birnbaum
PART 3. Preference, Measurement Theory, and Axiomatic Systems	103	(134)
Duncan Luce as Measurement Theorist	103	(8)
Patrick Suppes
A Stochastic Model for the Evolution of Preferences	111	(20)
J.-Cl. Falmagne
M. Regenwetter
B. Grofman
Preference Models and Irreversibility	131	(22)
John I. Yellott, Jr.
Generalized Random Utility Models and the Representational Theory of Measurement: A Conceptual Link	153	(36)
R. Niederee
D. Heyer
On Subjective Intensity and its Measurement	189	(18)
Louis Narens
A Geometric Approach to Two Dimensional Measurement	207	(18)
Michael V. Levine
Sherman Tsein
Bisymmetry and Consistent Aggregation: Historical Review and Recent Results	225	(12)
Janos Aczel
PART 4. Psychophysics and Response Time	237	(84)
The Writer is Indebted to a Referee	237	(8)
William J. McGill
Activation-State Representation of Models For the Redundant-Signals-Effect	245	(10)
Hans Colonius
James T. Townsend
Process Representations and Decompositions of Response Times	255	(24)
Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov
A Limited Capacity, Wave Equality, Random Walk Model of Absolute Identification	279	(22)
Peter Karpiuk, Jr.
Yves Lacouture
A. A. J. Marley
The Generalized Area Theorem in Signal Detection Theory	301	(20)
Geoffrey Iverson
Donald Bamber
PART 5. Choice and Categorization	321	(90)
Some Reflections on the Role of the Choice Model in Theories of Categorization, Identification, and Learning	321	(8)
W. K. Estes
A Network Model for Multiple Choice: Accuracy and Response Times	329	(18)
Richard M. Shiffrin
An Exemplar-Based Random-Walk Model of Speeded Categorization and Absolute Judgment	347	(20)
Robert M. Nosofsky
Categorization as a Special Case of Decision-Making or Choice	367	(22)
F. Gregory Ashby
Patricia M. Berretty
Toward an Analytic Model of Attention to Visual Shape	389	(22)
David LaBerge
Robert L. Carlson
John K. Williams
PART 6. Scientific Publications of R. Duncan Luce	411	(18)
References	429	(30)
Author Index	459	(6)
Subject Index	465