Paul Slovic

Author of Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

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About the Author

Paul Slovic is a founder and President of Decision Research, a non-profit research organization investigating human judgment, decision making, and risk. He is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Oregon and a past President of the Society for Risk Analysis.

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Works by Paul Slovic

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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (1982) — Editor — 373 copies, 3 reviews

The Perception of Risk (Risk, Society and Policy) (2000) 43 copies

Smoking : risk, perception & policy (2001) 24 copies

The Feeling of Risk: New Perspectives on Risk Perception (Earthscan Risk in Society) (2010) 7 copies

Risk, Media and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology (Earthscan Risk in Society) (2016) 2 copies

A Economia Irracional. Como Tomar As Decisões Certas Em Tempos De Incertezas 2 copies

Decision Research on Risk 1 copy

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New Scientist, 7 April 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman

A wealth of information on the subject. Looking forward to subsequent volume that adds 20 years of additional research

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boeintuy2 | 2 other reviews | Apr 20, 2022 |

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman

A collection of academic essays. They can be hit or miss, but the hits make this well worth slogging through. My favorites were "Judgment under uncertainty", "Belief in the law of small numbers", and "Learning from experience and suboptimal rules in decision making" (I was unable to find a copy of this one online).

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wgyn | 2 other reviews | Jul 3, 2013 |

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman

Author Jonah Lehrer has chosen to discuss Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Decision-Making, saying that:

“...This is one of the most influential books in modern economics. But first of all, it’s just this list of incredibly clever experiments, where Kahneman and Tversky just asked their undergraduates very simple hypothetical questions. They took these very simple protocols and transformed them into the first really hard proof that people consistently violate the expectation of rational agents. That we don’t think like homo economicus at all. Irrationality is embedded deep into our operating system. …”

The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jonah-lehrer-on-decision-making… (more)

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FiveBooks | 2 other reviews | Apr 14, 2010 |

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