Heuristics and biases : the psychology of intuitive judgement

Gilovich, Thomas. (Added Author). Griffin, Dale W. (Added Author). Kahneman, Daniel, 1934- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0521792606
ISBN: 0521796792 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 857 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 763-853) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction - Heuristics and Biases: Then and Now / Thomas Gilovich and Dale Griffin -- 1. Extensional versus Intuitive Reasoning: The Conjunction Fallacy in Probability Judgment / Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman -- 2. Representativeness Revisited: Attribute Substitution in Intuitive Judgement / Daniel Kahneman and Shane Frederick -- 3. How Alike Is It? versus How Likely Is It?: A Disjunction Fallacy in Probability Judgements / Maya Bar-Hillel and Efrat Neter -- 4. Imagining Can Heighten or Lower the Perceived Likelihood of Contracting a Disease: The Mediating Effect of Ease of Imagery / Steven J. Sherman, Robert B. Cialdini and Donna F. Sclrwartzman / [et al.] -- 5. The Availability Heuristic Revisited: Ease of Recall and Content of Recall as Distinct Sources of Information / Norbert Schwarz and Leigh Ann Vaughn -- 6. Incorporating the Irrelevant: Anchors in Judgements of Belief and Value / Gretchen B. Chapman and Eric J. Johnson -- 7. Putting Adjustment Back in the Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic / Nicholas Epley and Thomas Gilovich -- 8. Self-Anchoring in Conversation: Why Language Users Do Not Do What They "Should" / Boaz Keysar and Dale J. Barr -- 9. Inferential Correction / Daniel T. Gilbert -- 10. Mental Contamination and the Debiasing Problem / Timothy D. Wilson, David B. Centerbar and Nancy Brekke -- 11. Sympathetic Magical Thinking: The Contagion and Similarity "Heuristics" / Paul Rozin and Carol Nemeroff -- 12. Compatibility Effects in Judgment and Choice / Paul Slovic, Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky -- 13. The Weighing of Evidence and the Determinants of Confidence / Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky -- 14. Inside the Planning Fallacy: The Causes and Consequences of Optimistic Time Predictions / Roger Buehler, Dale Griffin and Michael Ross -- 15. Probability Judgment across Cultures / J. Frank Yates, Ju-Whei Lee and Winston R. Sieck / [et al.] --