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Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making
"Eleventh Ernst Str?ungmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main."How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped over evolutionary time through the process of natural selection. Evolution has created strong biases i…
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- 0262306026
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- 1 online resource (xi, 434 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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The importance of small decisions :how culture evolves
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news. Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how sma…
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- 9780262352536
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- 1 online resource (160 pages) :illustrations.
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Taming uncertainty
An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026235313X
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- 1 online resource (488 pages).
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Wine economics
"An interdisciplinary exploration of the economics of wine, drawing on a variety of academic literatures"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361027
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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326100
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- 1 online resource (viii, 456 pages) :illustrations.
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The power of experiments :decision making in a data-driven world
How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262358255
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages)
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Better than conscious? : DECISION MAKING, the HUMAN MIND, and IMPLICATIONS FO…
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…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Better than conscious? : DECISION MAKING, the HUMAN MIND, and IMPLICATIONS FO…
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…
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Streetlights and shadows :searching for the keys to adaptive decision making
In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines—gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in prac…
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- 9780262259019
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- 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Animal thinking :contemporary issues in comparative cognition
"Eighth Ernst Str?ungmann Forum held Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, Frankfurt am Main.""Do animals have cognitive maps? Do they possess knowledge? Do they plan for the future? Do they understand that others have mental lives of their own? This volume provides a state-of-the-art assessment of animal cognition, with experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology addre…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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