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What makes some decisions easy and others difficult? Research in judgment and decision making indicates that conflict plays a decisive role in decision-making processes. The essays in this book address questions about the causes of conflict and its effects on decision making and emotions, particularly regret.

Explores how the distribution of costs and benefits determine our intuition about fairness to provide a balanced look at the psychology of justice.

By understanding and communicating what professional decision makers do and how they do it well, this volume makes valuable contributions both to the judgement/decision-making field and to the professional community at large.

Showcases the research of scholars working on applications of behavioral decision theory. The 2001 volume is designed to give policy analysts and practitioners who are non-psychologists a clearer understanding of the complexities of human judgment and choice, and suggest how to integrate behavioral decision theoretic insights into the policy sciences.

What makes some decisions easy and others difficult? Research in judgment and decision making indicates that conflict plays a decisive role in decision-making processes. The essays in this book address questions about the causes of conflict and its effects on decision making and emotions, particularly regret.

By understanding and communicating what professional decision makers do and how they do it well, this volume makes valuable contributions both to the judgement/decision-making field and to the professional community at large.

Explores how the distribution of costs and benefits determine our intuition about fairness to provide a balanced look at the psychology of justice.

Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing, edited by Robert and Alison Ashton, presents over 20 years of research that analyzes how managers, investors, and creditors use accounting information in decision-making. Nine chapters by leading researchers survey the field and provide direction for future study.

This is the first book that tries to analyze law by showing how people actually behave. It emphasizes that people are frequently unselfish, have limited willpower and self-control, and often rely on mental short-cuts and rules of thumb. It offers important new insights and suggestions for legal reform.

Provides a comprehensive and understandable summary of the major theories of juror decision making.

This anthology offers an overview of recent research on the psychology of judgment and decision making, the field investigating the processes by which people draw conclusions, reach evaluations, and make choices.

Showcases the research of scholars working on applications of behavioral decision theory. The 2001 volume is designed to give policy analysts and practitioners who are non-psychologists a clearer understanding of the complexities of human judgment and choice, and suggest how to integrate behavioral decision theoretic insights into the policy sciences.

This book offers a more realistic account of decision making in organizations by highlighting several aspects such as the salience of incentives, the pervasiveness of conflict, and the role that power and politics play in organizational decision making.

This is a revision of Arkes and Hammond's 1986 collection of papers on judgment and decision making. The papers are selected from scientific literature, but chosen specifically to appeal to the scholar, student and layperson alike.

Decision Making in Health Care, first published in 2000, is a comprehensive overview of the field of medical decision making - a rapidly expanding field that includes quantitative theoretical tools for modeling decisions, psychological research on how decisions are actually made, and applied research on how physician and patient decision making can be improved.

Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing, edited by Robert and Alison Ashton, presents over 20 years of research that analyzes how managers, investors, and creditors use accounting information in decision-making. Nine chapters by leading researchers survey the field and provide direction for future study.

This volume provides a forum for perspectives on decision making. The aim is to expose readers to a variety of perspectives for enhancing the scope of judgment and decision making research. The chapters illustrate how much richer the field is becoming through introduction of novel perspectives on decision making.

This volume provides a forum for perspectives on decision making. The aim is to expose readers to a variety of perspectives for enhancing the scope of judgment and decision making research. The chapters illustrate how much richer the field is becoming through introduction of novel perspectives on decision making.

This is the first book that tries to analyze law by showing how people actually behave. It emphasizes that people are frequently unselfish, have limited willpower and self-control, and often rely on mental short-cuts and rules of thumb. It offers important new insights and suggestions for legal reform.