Research on Judgment and Decision Making

This book offers an overview of recent research on the psychology of judgment and decision making the field that investigates the processes by which people draw conclusions reach evaluations and make choices. An introductory historically oriented chapter provides a way of viewing the overall structure of the field its recent trends and its possible directions. Subsequent sections present significant recent papers by prominent researchers organized to reveal the currents connections and controversies that animate the field. Current trends in the field are illustrated with papers from ongoing streams of research. The papers on connections explore memory explanation and argument affect attitudes and motivation. Finally a section on controversies presents problem representation domain knowledge content specificity rule-governed versus rule-described behavior and proposals for radical departures and new beginnings in the field. Students and researchers in psychology who have an interest in cognitive processes will find this text to be rewarding reading.