Judgment and Decision Making as a Skill: Learning, Development and Evolution

by Edited by Mandeep K. Dhami , Anne Schlottmann , Michael R. Waldmann

• ISBN13: 9780521767811
• ISBN10: 0521767814
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Identifies how human judgment and decision making may evolve, develop and be learned or trained.

Author Biography

Mandeep K. Dhami received her Ph.D. in Psychology from City University, London in 2001. Before joining the University of Cambridge in 2005, she held academic appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany; University of Maryland, USA; and University of Victoria, Canada. Anne Schlottmann studied at the Ruhr Universitt Bochum, then went on a Fulbright scholarship to the University of California, San Diego, where she received her Ph.D. in 1991. Since then she has been at University College London where she is now a Senior Lecturer in the Developmental Science Department. Michael R. Waldmann was a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Germany, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Munich. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Psychology at the University of Gttingen.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Chapter cross-reference table	p. xv
Evolutionary and neural bases of JDM	p. 1
The evolved foundations of decision making	p. 3
Neural bases of judgment and decision making	p. 29
Developmental approaches to JDM	p. 53
Judgment and decision making in young children	p. 55
Judgment and decision making in adolescents	p. 85
Aging and decision skills	p. 113
Learning JDM	p. 141
Learning of judgment and decision-making strategies	p. 143
Causal models in judgment and decision making	p. 169
Learning judgment and decision making from feedback	p. 199
Improving and aiding JDM	p. 227
Improving judgment and decision making through communication and representation	p. 229
Aiding judgment and decision making	p. 259
Conclusion	p. 289
Perspectives on judgment and decision making as a skill	p. 291
Index	p. 307
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