Thinking and Deciding FROM THE PUBLISHER
Thinking and Deciding has established itself as a required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the third edition, Jonathan Baron delves further into many of the key questions addressed in the previous editions. Baron has also revised or expanded his treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye's theorem, and moral thinking.
SYNOPSIS
How we think, what keeps us from thinking that way, and how we can improve our thinking and decision making are three crucial questions considered in this exciting three-part introduction to current research and theory in the area of thinking and deciding.
FROM THE CRITICS
Times Higher Education Supplement
Baron has taken on the task of examining in detail the fill range and diversity ofpsychological research which helps him and us to understand the nature of thinking as he sees it, and to explore its application to teaching. It is a heroic effort, and thoroughly recommended.
Booknews
When he wrote the first edition (1988), Baron (U. of Pennsylvania) intended to provide background for those who wanted to teach thinking and decision making in schools, and a text for an undergraduate psychology course. That and the second edition, however, were used for advanced and graduate courses and as a medical reference, so here he abandons early designs, and shifts the emphasis to decision making to be useful to researchers in medicine, business, public policy, and law. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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