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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 3 edition (28 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521659728
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521659727
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"Baron has taken on the task of examining in detail the full range and diversity of psychological 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." Times Higher Education Supplement

"This magisterial book...lays out the issues in exemplary fashion....The explanations of prospect theory and rank-dependent utility theories...are as clear as any I have read. They are well suited for an introductory graduate course in the field and for health professional in all fields....This book is as balanced and clear as one is likely to find. It is an outstanding introduction to and summary of the psychology of decision making and should be widely read." Medical Decision Making

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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. For example, how should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? Baron has also revised or expanded his treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye’s theorem, moral thinking, trust, utility measurement, and decision analysis and values. By emphasizing decision making, Baron has made Thinking and Deciding, Third Edition more relevant to researchers in applied fields, such as medicine, business, public policy, and law, while maintaining its appeal to graduate and undergraduate students.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, 17 Nov 2003
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During my undergraduate studies in Operational Research I used this book for a course on Decision Analysis. This book covers almost everything one needs to know about behavioural decision theory. Baron has drawn from research on human psychology - this book answers questions such as how we should think and contrasts it to how in fact we do think and why this is different. How do we base our decisions on the way we think? It shows very interesting examples of research done on human biases and quasi-rationality, especially drawn from work done by Kahneman and Tversky. It also has detailed sections on Bayes' Theorem, utility and prospect theory and risk. Baron just has a way of making things much more understandable to undergraduates than some other authors.
After reading this book you will be able to understand why our thinking often differs from the theories and how we can take account of that. You will understand whether we humans are in fact rational decision makers! This was one of the only books during my undergraduate studies that I not only really enjoyed reading but I also read during my leisure time. Having completed my studies, I still find myself reading this book at times out of pure interest, so this book does not only appeal to students or researchers but also to anyone else who is interested in behavioural decision theory.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to human judgement, 4 Aug 2008
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I particularly like two things about this book:

1- It provides a comprehensive review of many theories of judgment and reasoning (e.g. Tversky and Kahneman's work on choice, Jonson-Laird's work on mental models etc.). This contrasts with many other books in the area which focus on a particular theory (e.g. prospect theory), or edited books resulting from particular conferences.

2- It covers both "decision-making" (e.g. forming preferences, risk analysis etc.) as well as "thinking" (e.g. logical reasoning about beliefs). This contrasts with other books that cover only one or the other.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Thinking or intent, 1 Jun 2008
By Mr. A. Majeed "Abdul Majeed" (Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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From the first page on the nature of 'thinking', it becomes apparent that the book should be more properly directed to the issue of, 'intent', and within that, a distinction should be made between the perspective of both the reader and external parties, respectively.
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