Judgment and Decision Making

Judgment and Decision Making:

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Judgment and decision making.

The study of judgment and decision making entails three interrelated forms of research: (1) normative analysis, identifying the best courses of action, given decision makers' values; (2) descriptive studies, examining actual behavior in terms comparable to the normative analyses; and (3) prescriptive interventions, helping individuals to make better choices, bridging the gap between the normati...

Mindful judgment and decision making.

A full range of psychological processes has been put into play to explain judgment and choice phenomena. Complementing work on attention, information integration, and learning, decision research over the past 10 years has also examined the effects of goals, mental representation, and memory processes. In addition to deliberative processes, automatic processes have gotten closer attention, and t...

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Judgment and Decision Making: Extrapolations and Applications

People who make or implement public policy must often estimate probabilities, predict outcomes, and make decisions that affect the welfare, values, and lives of many others. Until recently many of the disciplines that study policy employed a model of individuals and organizations as rational agents whose predictions conform to the prescriptions of probability theory and whose actions maximize t...