Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to Part I -- Cognitive process models and explanations of decision making -- Psychometric and methodological aspects of process tracing research -- Introduction to Part II -- Personal involvement in human decision making: conceptualisations and effects on decision processes -- Aspects of compatibility and the construction of preference -- Perspectives and emotions in personal decision making -- Is hate wiser than love? Cognitive and emotional utilities in decision making -- Introduction to Part III -- Anticipating the future: appraising risk and uncertainty -- Theoretical conceptions of framing effects in risky decisions -- Beyond gambles and lotteries: naturalistic risky decisions -- Introduction to Part IV -- Influences of the past on choices of the future -- The effects of time pressure on human judgement and decision making -- Decision making in dynamic task environments -- Turning prior disadvantages into advantages: differentiation and consolidation in real-life decision making -- Post-decisional confidence -- can it be trusted? -- Index.

This book offers an exciting new collection of recent research on the actual processes that humans use when making decisions in their everyday lives and in business situations. The contributors use cognitive psychological techniques to break down the constituent processes and set them in their social context. The contributors are from many different countries and draw upon a wide range of techniques, making this book a valuable resource to cognitive psychologists in applied settings, economists and managers.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.