Thinking and Deciding
2nd Edition
- Author: Jonathan Baron, University of Pennsylvania
- Date Published: November 1994
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521437325
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How should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? And how can we improve our thinking and decision making? The primary focus of Jonathan Baron's text is on the second question, but he considers all three in this lively three-part introduction to current research and theory. Part I offers a broad overview of thinking, including its role in problem solving and its relation to learning, intelligence, creativity, and logic. Part II deals with the formation of beliefs and the making of judgments. Part III concerns decisions, morality, intertemporal choice, and the choice of goals. In response to latest developments in decision making, Jonathan Baron has updated and expanded his important book, Thinking and Deciding and has also added a new chapter on fairness.
Read more- Baron tells us how to improve our own powers of thinking and decision making
- The extremely successful first edition has been revised and expanded to take account of new research
- Provides a thorough and accessible treatment ideal for student use
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'Baron has taken on the task of examining in detail the full range and diversity of psychological research which helps him and us to understand the nature of thinking as he sees it, and to explore its application to teaching.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: November 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521437325
- length: 604 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.816kg
- contains: 37 b/w illus. 33 tables
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1. Thinking in general
2. The study of thinking
3. Good thinking: the nature of rationality
4. Problem solving
5. Learning: basic processes
6. Learning: complex material
7. Intelligence and creativity
8. The teaching of thinking
9. Formal logic
10. Logic and everyday reasoning
11. Normative theory of probability
12. Descriptive theory of probability judgment
13. Hypothesis testing
14. Judgment of correlation and contingency
15. Biases and beliefs
16. Normative theory of utility and choice
17. Decision analysis and utility measurement
18. Descriptive theory of choice under uncertainty
19. Description of choice under certainty
20. Quantitative judgment
21. Moral thinking
22. Fairness
23. Social dilemmas: cooperation versus defection
24. Decisions about the future.
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