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judgment under uncertainty
the thirty five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce not only in laboratory experiments but in important social medical and political situations as well . individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics problems in judging covariation and control overconfidence multistage inference social perception medical diagnosis risk perception and methods for correcting and improving judgments under uncertainty . about half of the chapters are edited versions of classic articles ; the remaining chapters are newly written for this book . most review multiple studies or entire subareas of research and application rather than describing single experimental studies . this book will be useful to a wide range of students and researchers as well as to decision makers seeking to gain insight into their judgments and to improve them .
paperback cambridge univ pr txp 1982 isbn 0521284147
abridged n isbn 13 9780521284141 number of pages 544 publisher cambridge univ pr release date 62135769600000