Psychological investigations of competence in decision making /

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Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:x, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge series on judgment and decision making
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5207731
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Other authors / contributors:Smith, Kip, 1943-
Shanteau, James.
Johnson, Paul E. (Paul Erick), 1938-
ISBN:0521583063
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: What Does It Mean to Be Competent?
  • Part I.. Metacognition-Self
  • 1. The Conversion Decision in Laparoscopic Surgery: Knowing Your Limits and Limiting Your Risks
  • 2. Competence in Weather Forecasting
  • Part II.. Metacognition-Others
  • 3. Managing Risk in Social Exchange
  • 4. Emergency Decision Making
  • 5. Designing for Competence
  • Part III.. Enablers of Competence
  • 6. Arguments and Decisions
  • 7. Representations of Uncertainty and Change: Three Case Studies with Experts
  • 8. The Vice of Consensus and the Virtue of Consistency
  • Index