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Thinking and Deciding

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ISBN-10: 0521680433

ISBN-13: 9780521680431

Edition: 4th 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Jonathan Baron

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Beginning with its first edition and through subsequent editions, Thinking and Deciding has established itself as the required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the fourth edition, Jonathan Baron retains the comprehensive attention to the key questions addressed in the previous editions - How should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? - and his expanded treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye's theorem, and moral thinking. With the student in mind, the fourth edition emphasises the development of an understanding of the…    
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Book details

List price: $62.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Jonathan Baron is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Morality and Rational Choice, Thinking and Deciding, Judgment Misguided: Intuition and Error in Public Decision Making, and other books.

Preface
Thinking in General
What is thinking?
The study of thinking
Rationality
Logic
Probability and Belief
Normative theory of probability
Descriptive theory of probability judgment
Hypothesis testing
Judgment of correlation and contingency
Actively open-minded thinking
Decisions and Plans
Normative theory of choice
Description of choice under uncertainty
Choice under certainty
Utility measurement
Decision analysis and values
Quantitative judgment
Moral judgement and choice
Fairness and justice
Social dilemmas
Decisions about the future
Risk