Art and Science of Making up Your Mind
By: Brown, Rex V.
Contributor(s): Baron, Jonathon | Brown, Karen.
Publisher: New York Routledge taylor & francis group 2020Description: xi,101p.ISBN: 9781848726574.Subject(s): Thought and thinking -- Choice (Psychology) -- PsychologyDDC classification: 153.83 Summary: The Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind presents basic decision-making principles and tools to help the reader respond efficiently and wisely to everyday dilemmas. Although most decisions are made informally (whether intuitively without deliberate thought, or based on careful reflection), over the centuries people have tried to develop systematic, scientific and structured ways in which to make decisions. Using qualitative counterparts to quantitative models, Rex Brown takes the reader through the basics, like 'what is a decision' and then considers a wide variety of real-life decisions, explaining how the best judgments can be made using logical principles. Combining multiple evaluations of the same judgment ("hybrid judgment") and exploring innovative analytical concepts (such as "ideal judgment"), this book explores and analyzes the skills needed to master the basics of non-mathematical decision making, and what should be done, using real world illustrations of decision methods. The book is an ideal companion for students of Thinking, Reasoning and Decision-Making, and also for anyone wanting to understand how to make better judgments in their everyday lives.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 153.8 HAN- Handbook of motivation and cognition across cultures | 153.8 HAN- Handbook on psychology of motivation : | 153.8072 CAR-; Decision research: a field guide | 153.83 BRO-A Art and Science of Making up Your Mind | 153.8303 ENC- Encyclopedia of psychology of decision making / | 153.85 FIS-P Predicting and changing behavior: the reasoned action approach | 153.85 THA-D Delta theory and psychosocial systems: the practice of influence and change |
Includes Bibliography & Index
The Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind presents basic decision-making principles and tools to help the reader respond efficiently and wisely to everyday dilemmas. Although most decisions are made informally (whether intuitively without deliberate thought, or based on careful reflection), over the centuries people have tried to develop systematic, scientific and structured ways in which to make decisions. Using qualitative counterparts to quantitative models, Rex Brown takes the reader through the basics, like 'what is a decision' and then considers a wide variety of real-life decisions, explaining how the best judgments can be made using logical principles. Combining multiple evaluations of the same judgment ("hybrid judgment") and exploring innovative analytical concepts (such as "ideal judgment"), this book explores and analyzes the skills needed to master the basics of non-mathematical decision making, and what should be done, using real world illustrations of decision methods. The book is an ideal companion for students of Thinking, Reasoning and Decision-Making, and also for anyone wanting to understand how to make better judgments in their everyday lives.
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