The Wiley Blackwell Handbook Of Judgment And Decision Making

"This two-volume reference is a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the most important theory, concepts, methodological approaches, and applications in the burgeoning field of judgment and decision making (JDM). Brings together a multi-disciplinary group of contributors from across the social sciences, including psychology, economics, marketing, finance, public policy, sociology, and philosophy Provides accessible, essential information, complete with the latest research and references, for experts and non-experts alike in two volumes Emphasizes the growth of JDM applications with separate chapters devoted to medical decision making, decision making and the law, consumer behavior, and more Addresses controversial topics (such as choice fromdescription vs. choice from experience and contrasts between empirical methodologies employed in behavioral economics and psychology) from multiple perspectives "--

George Wu is Professor of Behavioral Science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, USA. He studies the psychology of individual decision making, goal setting and cognitive biases in bargaining and negotiation. His research has been published widely in a number of journals in economics, management science, and psychology, includingCognitive Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Management Science, Psychological Science, andQuarterly Journal of Economics. He has served as Department Editor of Management Science and is on numerous other editorial boards, includingDecision Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, andTheory and Decision.

Gideon Keren is Professor emeritus of Psychology at the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His early research focused on cognition and attention; his recent work has shifted toward the emerging field of behavioral decision making. His research interests include probabilistic reasoning and calibration of probabilities, the perception of randomness, intertemporal choice, framing effects, and the nature of trust. His work has been published in a large number of journals, including Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Cognition, andJournal of Experimental Psychology, as well as in the main journals for judgment and decision making, includingJournal of Economic Behaviour and Organizations, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.