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  • Perspectives on Framing

    Edited by Gideon Keren ...
    Series series The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series
    Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication, idea, or intention can be articulated in different ways—in other words, the same message can be "framed" differently. The same medical treatment can be portrayed in terms chance of chance of success or ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

    Edited by Gideon Keren, George Wu ...
    A comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the most important theory, concepts, methodological approaches, and applications in the burgeoning field of judgment and decision making (JDM)Emphasizes the growth of JDM applications with chapters devoted to medical decision making, decision making and the law, consumer behavior, and moreAddresses controversial topics from multiple perspectives – such as ... Read more

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  • A Handbook for Data Analysis in the Behaviorial Sciences

    Volume 1: Methodological Issues Volume 2: Statistical Issues

    Edited by Gideon Keren, Charles Lewis ...
    Statistical methodology is often conceived by social scientists in a technical manner; they use it for support rather than for illumination. This two-volume set attempts to provide some partial remedy to the problems that have led to this state of affairs. Both traditional issues, such as analysis of variance and the general linear model, as well as more novel methods like exploratory data ... Read more

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    Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman—have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this ... Read more

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  • Heuristics and Biases

    The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

    Is our case strong enough to go to trial? Will interest rates go up? Can I trust this person? Such questions - and the judgments required to answer them - are woven into the fabric of everyday experience. This book, first published in 2002, examines how people make such judgments. The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s, when Kahneman and Tversky introduced their 'heuristics and ... Read more

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  • Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions

    Inviting Relational Understandings for Therapeutic Change

    Series series Routledge Series on Family Therapy and Counseling
    In this book we present a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The contributors of this edited book articulate the IPscope framework as it was originally designed and its evolution over time. We invite you, experienced professionals and new family therapists, to join with ... Read more

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  • Theories in Social Psychology

    Edited by Derek Chadee ...
    Theories in Social Psychology is an edited volume that identifies and discusses in-depth the important theoretical perspectives and theories that underlie the discipline of social psychology.The only current book focusing specifically on the theories within social psychologyBrings together a range of distinguished scholars in the field of social psychology – including Bertram F. Malle, Paul R. ... Read more

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  • Methods Matter

    Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

    Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what ... Read more

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    Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics, decision theory, management science). It employs both empirical methods, to study how decisions are actually made, and analytical ones, to study how decisions should be made and how consequential ... Read more

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    Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people's experience. A framework of key job characteristics is linked to an account of primary mental processes, and those are set ... Read more

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  • The Rationality Quotient

    Toward a Test of Rational Thinking

    How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills.Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis of 2008. Smart people do foolish things because intelligence ... Read more

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  • Understanding and Applying Relational Frame Theory

    Mastering the Foundations of Complex Language in Our Work and Lives as Behavior Analysts

    A comprehensive treatise on how to understand complex language, and use language effectively as a behavior analyst.Language changes everything. From infancy through adulthood, language shapes how we live our lives and interact with other people, in increasingly complex ways. Language also shapes how we exist in the world as professionals—and how we operate as a profession. As behavior analysts ... Read more

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