Comparative Decision-Making Analysis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199856800
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 163x239x33 mm
- Weight 870 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Decisions are made by individual humans-but also by corporations, plants, robots, and computer programs. The authors of this volume help initiate a powerful new comparative dimension for our analysis and application of decision making across an enormous range of intellectual enquiry.
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Decision making cuts across most areas of intellectual enquiry and academic endeavor. The classical view of individual human thinkers choosing among options remains important and instructive, but the contributors to this volume broaden this perspective to characterize the decision making behavior of groups, non-human organisms and even non-living objects and mathematical constructs. A diverse array of methods is brought to bear-mathematical, computational, subjective, neurobiological, evolutionary, and cultural. We can often identify best or optimal decisions and decision making processes, but observed responses may deviate markedly from these, to a large extent because the environment in which decisions must be made is constantly changing. Moreover, decision making can be highly constrained by institutions, natural and social context, and capabilities. Studies of the mechanisms underlying decisions by humans and other organisms are just beginning to gain traction and shape our thinking. Though decision making has fundamental similarities across the diverse array of entities considered to be making them, there are large differences of degree (if not kind) that relate to the question of human uniqueness. From this survey of views and approaches, we converge on a tentative agenda for accelerating development of a new field that includes advancing the dialog between the sciences and the humanities, developing a defensible classification scheme for decision making and decision makers, addressing the role of morality and justice, and moving advances into applications-the rapidly developing field of decision support.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Philip H. Crowley and Thomas R. Zentall
Chapter 2. Economic decisions and institutional boundaries
Evelyn Korn and Johannes Ziesecke
Commentary 2.1. Advocating for Homo economicus
Erwin Amann
Commentary 2.2. The Neoclassical Economics Model: Extensions and Limits
Jack Schieffer
Chapter 3. Why Making a Decision Involves More Than Decision-Making: Past, Present, and Future in Human Action
Bertram C. Bruce
Commentary 3.1. Punctuation, Continuity, and Historicity: Traversing the In-Between
Travis Whetsell and Patricia M. Shields
Commentary 3.2. Why we will never know if human decision making is unique
Evelyn Korn
Commentary 3.3. Forks in the Road from Decision to Action
Chris Higgins
Chapter 4. Environmental Decision Making in the Argentine Delta
Stephanie C. Kane
Commentary 4.1. Environmental Decision-Making,
Social Reality, and Port Cities as "Hot Spots "
Commentary 4.2. The Crevices of Unreason in Human Decision Making
Bertram C. Bruce
Chapter 5. The Social Nature of Human Decision Making
James D. Morrow
Commentary 5.1. The Social Nature of Human Decision Making: A Computational Perspective
Craig Boutilier
Commentary 5.2. When Should We Expect a Nash Equilibrium?
Barry O'Neill
Chapter 6: Ambiguous decisions in the human brain
Ifat Levy
Commentary 6.1 Ambiguous Decisions in the Human Brain
Ming Hsu and Lusha Zhu
Commentary 6.2 What Animals Can Tell Us About Human Choice Under Risk
Thomas R. Zentall
Chapter 7: What Can Neuroeconomics Tell Us About Economics (and Vice Versa)?
Mark Dean
Commentary 7.1. Disciplining behavioral theories through brain-based models of decision-making
Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo
Commentary 7.2 On the benefits of studying mechanisms underlying behavior
Andrew Sih, Andrew Bibian, Nick DiRienzo, XiuXiang Meng, Pierre-Oliver Montiglio and Kevin Ringelman
Chapter 8. Behavioral Approaches to Decision Making
Edmund Fantino and Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino
Commentary 8.1 Can Choice Be Suboptimal?
K. Geoffrey White
Commentary 8.2 How Studying Animals Can Clarify the Basis of Human Decision Making
Thomas Zentall
Chapter 9. A behavioral ecology view of decision making: something old, something borrowed, something new
Andrew Sih
Commentary 9.1 Crossovers in Ecological and Economic Models of Decisions
Jack Schieffer
Commentary 9.2 The Scientific Perspective and the Potential Emergence of a General Theory of Decision Making
David F. Westneat
Chapter 10. Using evolutionary thinking to cut across disciplines: the example of the argumentative theory of reasoning
Hugo Mercier
Commentary 10.1 Evolution and Development
David Moshman
Commentary 10.2 The Effectiveness of Classical Reasoning and the Provenance of Reasoning by Argumentation
Philip H. Crowley
Commentary 10.3 A new link in the Unification of the Sciences of Cognition
Alain Trognon and Martine Batt
Commentary 10.4: The Evolution of Argument: A Commentary on Mercier
David S. Chester, Richard S. Pond, Jr., and C. Nathan DeWall
Chapter 11. Poor Decisions About Security
Bruce Schneier and Deric Miller
Commentary 11.1: Poor Decisions about Security
Helen Pushkarskaya and Ifat Levy
Commentary 11.2: Human irrationality as a contributor financial and economic insecurity: Implications for policy-makers
Denis Hilton and Caroline Attia
Chapter 12. Increasing the Accuracy of Criminal Justice Decision-Making
Sarah A. Crowley and Peter J. Neufeld
Commentary 12.1. Roots of Wrongful Convictions
Brandon L. Garrett
Commentary 12.2. Driving forces for change
Rebecca E. Bucht
Chapter 13. Forensic Judgment and Decision-Making
Peter A. F. Fraser-Mackenzie, Rebecca E. Bucht, & Itiel E. Dror
Commentary 13.1 The Awkward Marriage of Criminal Justice and Science
Sarah Crowley
Commentary 13.2 In the Eye of the Beholder
Thomas R. Zentall
Chapter 14. Computational Decision Support: Regret-based Models for Optimization and Preference Elicitation
Craig Boutilier
Commentary 14.1. Group Decision Making on Combinatorial Domains
Jérôme Lang
Commentary 14.2. Putting Preferences into Computational Context
Judy Goldsmith
Commentary 14.3. Bottlenecks and Regret
Vincent Conitzer and Lirong Xia
Chapter 15. Improving public policy decisions in creating institutions and markets to transfer natural disaster risk in developing countries
Jerry R. Skees and Grant Cavanaugh
Commentary 15.1 Decision Making About Real Needs of Actual People
Helen Pushkarskya
Commentary 15.2 Designing Mechanisms to Overcome Market and Behavioral Failures
Jack Schieffer
Chapter 16. What the comparative approach to decision making has to offer
Philip H. Crowley and Thomas R. Zentall
