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Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World
Keith E. Stanovich
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Description for Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World
Paperback. Series: Fundamentals in Cognition. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 halftones, 20 line illus. BIC Classification: JMRN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
In Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World, Keith E. Stanovich demonstrates how work in the cognitive psychology of decision making has implications for the large and theoretically contentious debates about the nature of human rationality. Written specifically for undergraduate psychology students, the book presents a very practical approach to decision making, which is too often perceived by students as an artificial set of skills used only in academia and not in the real world. Instead, Stanovich shows how good decision-making procedures support rational behavior that enables people to act most efficiently to fulfill their goals. He explains how ... Read more
In Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World, Keith E. Stanovich demonstrates how work in the cognitive psychology of decision making has implications for the large and theoretically contentious debates about the nature of human rationality. Written specifically for undergraduate psychology students, the book presents a very practical approach to decision making, which is too often perceived by students as an artificial set of skills used only in academia and not in the real world. Instead, Stanovich shows how good decision-making procedures support rational behavior that enables people to act most efficiently to fulfill their goals. He explains how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Fundamentals in Cognition
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195328127
SKU
V9780195328127
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Reviews for Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World
In this masterly work, Keith Stanovich provides an excellent and readable review of the literature on the psychology of decision making and the rationality debate that it has engendered. Beyond this, he conveys his own distinctive insights into the rationality of human behavior in the everyday world. This is a most welcome introduction for students to this fascinating and important ... Read more