AUTHOR:Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky, eds.
CATEGORY:psychology
COMMENT:A collection of 35 articles by 39 researches in the area of human decision making. Major topics are: representativeness, Causality and Attribution, Availability, Covariation and Control, Overconfidence, Multistage evaluation, Corrective Procedures and Risk Perception. These articles are the original "cognitive illusion" articles which establish how the frame or setting of a problem can greatly influence the decisions made. As skeptics, we are often presented with personal statements and eyewitness reports as sources of information. The articles in this book will help you to understand the circumstances and nature of common errors of judgement.
DATE:19980925
KEYWORDS:psychology
MISC:555p.
PUBLISHER:Cambridge University Press
SUBMITADDR:sofkam@rpi.edu
SUBMITNAME:Mike Sofka
TITLE:Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
