Better than conscious? : decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions /

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Meeting name:	Ernst Strüngmann Forum (2007 : Frankfurt, Germany)
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2008. ©2008
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Strüngmann Forum reports Strüngmann Forum reports.
Subject:	Decision making -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses. Decision making -- Social aspects -- Congresses. Cognitive neuroscience -- Congresses. Decision making. Human information processing. Brain -- physiology Cognitive Science Decision Making Mental Processes Human information processing. Decision making. Cognitive neuroscience. Decision making -- Physiological aspects. Decision making -- Social aspects. Congress Conference papers and proceedings. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11171845

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Other authors / contributors:	Engel, Christoph, 1956- Singer, W. (Wolf)
ISBN:	9780262272353 0262272350 9781435651890 1435651898 9780262195805 0262195801
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the ability to process information consciously is severely limited and conscious decision makers are liable to hundreds of biases. Measured against the norms of rational choice theory, conscious decision makers perform poorly. But if people forego conscious control, in appropriate tasks, they perform surprisingly better: they handle vast amounts of information; they update prior information; they find appropriate solutions to ill-defined problems. This inaugural Strungmann Forum Report explores the human ability to make decisions, consciously as well as without conscious control. It explores decision-making strategies, including deliberate and intuitive; explicit and implicit; processing information serially and in parallel, with a general-purpose apparatus, or with task-specific neural subsystems. The analysis is at four levels--neural, psychological, evolutionary, and institutional--and the discussion is extended to the definition of social problems and the design of better institutional interventions. The results presented differ greatly from what could be expected under standard rational choice theory and deviate even more from the alternate behavioral view of institutions. New challenges emerge (for example, the issue of free will) and some purported social problems almost disappear if one adopts a more adequate model of human decision making.
Other form:	Print version: Ernst Strüngmann Forum (2007 : Frankfurt, Germany). Better than conscious? Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2008 9780262195805 0262195801

Table of Contents:

Better than conscious? : the brain, the psyche, behavior, and institutions / Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer
Conscious and nonconscious processes : distinct forms of evidence accumulation? / Stanislas Dehaene
The role of value systems in decision making / Peter Dayan
Neurobiology of decision making : an intentional framework / Michael N. Shadlen [and others]
Brain signatures of social decision making / Kevin McCabe and Tania Singer
Neuronal correlates of decision making / Michael Platt [and others]
The evolution of implicit and explicit decision making / Robert Kurzban
Passive parallel automatic minimalist processing / Roger Ratcliff and Gail McKoon
How culture and brain mechanisms interact in decision making / Merlin Donald
Marr, memory, and heuristics / Lael J. Schooler
Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making / Christian Keysers [and others]
How evolution outwits bounded rationality : the efficient interaction of automatic and deliberate processes in decision making and implications for institutions / Andreas Glöckner
The evolutionary biology of decision making / Jeffrey R. Stevens
Gene culture coevolution and the evolution of social institutions / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson
Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions / Richard McElreath [and others]
The neurobiology of individual decision making, dualism, and legal accountability / Paul W. Glimcher
Conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes in jurors' decisions / Reid Hastie
Institutions for intuitive man / Christoph Engel
Institutional design capitalizing on the intuitive nature of decision making / Mark Lubell [and others].

Better than conscious? : decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions /

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