Judgment and decision making as a skill : learning, development, and evolution / edited by Mandeep K. Dhami, Anne Schlottmann, and Michael R. Waldmann.

"This book presents a comprehensive review of emerging theories and research on the dynamic nature of human judgment and decision making (JDM). Leading researchers in the fields of JDM, cognitive development, human learning and neuroscience discuss short-term and long-term changes in JDM skills. The authors consider how such skills increase and decline on a developmental scale in children, adolescents and the elderly; how they may be learned; and how JDM skills can be improved and aided. In addition, beyond these behavioral approaches to understanding JDM as a skill, the book provides fascinating new insights from recent evolutionary and neuropsychological approaches. The authors identify opportunities for future research on the acquisition and changing nature of JDM. In a concluding chapter, eminent past presidents of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making provide personal reflections and perspectives on the notion of JDM as a dynamic skill"-- Provided by publisher

"Our scientific understanding of human Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) has grown considerably over the past 60 years in terms of the normative benchmarks (or standards) by which we assess performance, the descriptive models we use to describe JDM, and the prescriptive solutions we offer to improve JDM. Indeed, policy and practice in several domains such as education, management, and medicine have benefited from the findings of JDM research. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the theoretical literature and empirical research has discussed human JDM with little reference to its changing or dynamic nature. This is partly due to the historic coincidence that the field of JDM developed in competition with static economic models, such as expected utility theory, and to limiting methodological commitments such as investigating JDM in single-trial, cross-sectional studies with the primary focus on cognitively fully functioning adults"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Judgment and Decision Making as a Skill: Learning, Development and Evolution; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter cross-reference table; Part I Evolutionary and neural bases of JDM; 1 The evolved foundations of decision making; Introduction; The evolved foundations of decision making; Adaptive goals; Evolved capacities and heuristics; Capacities; Building blocks; Heuristics; Information structure in the environment; Shaping goals, tools, and behaviors; Adaptively important decision domains.

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