JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING

Baruch Fischhoff is a long-time leader in behavioral decision research. This book presents his most important work in the field, offering the reader both an understanding of how decisions are made and lessons on how to improve decision making. Relevant across a range of professional sectors and academic disciplines, this book is essential reading for those who need a breadth and depth of understanding of this field and how it can help us in the important decisions we face.

This book includes sections on hindsight bias, judgment under uncertainty, value elicitation, and decision making. Applied topics include adolescent risk taking, sexual assault, insurance, environment, medicine, technology, national security, and ...