Decisions
Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices
$85.67
- Paperback
214 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
A lively, authoritative insider’s account of how we make decisions and how decision-making research has developed over the last half century. Decisions describes the evolution of decision science (also called behavioral decision research and related to behavioral economics) through its application to challenging personal and public policy decisions, since the inception of the field. Baruch Fischhoff covers all major topics in basic research, including how people create options, determine what matters to them, evaluate their chances of achieving those goals, and engage their emotions. He shows how those processes play out in an exceptionally wide variety of decisions regarding health, safety, the environment, disasters, and national security, among other topics. He also examines how decision-making abilities vary across individuals and across the lifespan, as well as the ethics and politics of how research is conducted and its results are shared and applied.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553163 |
| Author: | Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 214 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Baruch Fischhoff was present at the inception. He was at Hebrew University in Jerusalem with Kahneman and Tversky when they began creating the universe of judgment and decision-making, biases, and heuristics, and what became behavioral economics. His name is most closely associated with hindsight bias, our tendency to think we knew it all along and to be “insufficiently surprised” by events. For the past 50 years, Fischhoff has been applying Bayesian inference, game theory, measure theory, and signal detection theory to an extraordinary array of real-world decision problems….The influence of Baruch’s published articles has been enormous, but it has been magnified even more by his participation on many committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, often as the committee chair, and his membership and leadership on key advisory committees of federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.”—3Quarks Daily
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff is an internationally known scientist, studying basic and applied decision making. A long-time faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, he is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
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