Framing Decisions: Decision-Making that Accounts for Irrationality, People and Constraints

Acknowledgments

In writing this book, I picked a lot of brains. Many people provided facts and insights that helped me flesh out the book’s contents. My graduate students provided a great sounding board to test my ideas and to offer interesting insights. Colleagues in the management science community were generous in sharing perspectives that helped shape many of my ideas. But two people deserve special mention.

First, I thank my brother, Matthew Hugh Erdelyi, a professor of cognitive psychology at Brooklyn College specializing in recovered memory. When I needed coaching on various topics in experimental psychology as I was writing this book, he got me on the right track. I’m not sure that he agrees with some of the positions I take, but he is ...