Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Thinking About Security in the Indo-Pacific

Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Thinking About Security in the Indo-Pacific
Author: Alexander L. Vuving
Publisher: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0977324664

Hindsight, Insight, Foresight is a tour d’horizon of security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Written by 20 current and former members of the faculty at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, its 21 chapters provide hindsight, insight, and foresight on numerous aspects of security in the region. This book will help readers to understand the big picture, grasp the changing faces, and comprehend the local dynamics of regional security.

Singapore’s Approach to Developing Teachers

Singapore’s Approach to Developing Teachers
Author: Woon Chia Liu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429782616

Singapore’s education system has come to international attention due to its commendable performance on the Worldwide Educating for the Future Index produced by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), as well as the students’ continual sterling performance in internationally benchmarked tests such as Trends in International Math and Science Survey (TIMSS), and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The accomplishments are the result of a long-haul vision of education, and more importantly, a deep commitment towards developing teachers for the 21st century. Singapore has invested steadfastly from the early years in teachers at the front line of the classrooms in schools. This book explicates the ‘thinking’ behind Singapore’s approach to developing teachers and building the teaching profession. It examines how Singapore strives to attract the best and the brightest people to become teachers, develop them into autonomous professionals, and grow them over their career so that they are able to deliver quality education for every child. The author hopes that by sharing the hindsight, insight and foresight of the system, and looking at Singapore's aspirations and challenges, the book can stimulate reflection and generate discussion, and provide ideas for improving teaching and teacher learning worldwide.

Principles of Forecasting

Principles of Forecasting
Author: J.S. Armstrong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780792374015

This handbook summarises knowledge from experts and empirical studies. It provides guidelines that can be applied in fields such as economics, sociology, and psychology. Includes a comprehensive forecasting dictionary.

Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go

Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go
Author: Beverly Kaye
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609946324

Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process to help with career development.

Judgment and Decision Making

Judgment and Decision Making
Author: Peter Juslin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2007-09-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135668728

Research on human judgment and decision making has been strongly guided by a normative/descriptive approach, according to which human decision making is compared to the normative models provided by decision theory, statistics, and the probability calculus. A common empirical finding has been that human behavior deviates from the prescriptions by normative models--that judgments and decisions are subject to cognitive biases. It is interesting to note that Swedish research on judgment and decision making made an early departure from this dominating mainstream tradition, albeit in two different ways. The Neo-Brunswikian research highlights the relationship between the laboratory task and the adaptation to a natural environment. The process-tracing approach attempts to identify the cognitive processes before, during, and after a decision. This volume summarizes current Swedish research on judgment and decision making, covering topics, such as dynamic decision making, confidence research, the search for dominance structures and differentiation, and social decision making.

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition
Author: Klaus Fiedler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2006
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521831598

This book proposes that environmental information samples are biased and cognitive processes are not.

Behavioral Law and Economics

Behavioral Law and Economics
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2000-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521667432

Analyzes law with reference to new findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics.

Individual and Group Decision Making

Individual and Group Decision Making
Author: N. John Castellan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134767900

The idea for this volume took root during a recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association. The contributors share a common vision of research in their particular area and have had an opportunity to debate and clarify their ideas. Taken as a whole, the fifteen chapters provide an exciting perspective of the field and form a basic set of readings for courses on individual and group decision making in a variety of disciplines. The coverage from basic laboratory research to complex applied group decision processes should challenge researchers and students to pursue the field of decision making as enthusiastic scientists and practitioners.

The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking
Author: David R. Mandel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2007-05-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134353189

This book provides a critical overview of significant developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights exciting new directions for future research in this area. Key issues considered include the relations between counterfactual and casual reasoning, the functional bases of counterfactual thinking, the role of counterfactual thinking in the experience of emotion and the importance of counterfactual thinking in the context of crime and justice.

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law
Author: Eyal Zamir
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 841
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199397953

The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues. These studies have challenged the application of the rational-choice model to legal analysis and introduced a more accurate and empirically grounded model of human behavior. This integration of economics, psychology, and law is breaking exciting new ground in legal theory and the social sciences, shedding a new light on age-old legal questions as well as cutting edge policy issues. The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its 29 chapters organized in four parts. The first part provides a general overview of behavioral economics. The second part comprises four chapters introducing and criticizing the contribution of behavioral economics to legal theory. The third part discusses specific behavioral phenomena, their ramifications for legal policymaking, and their reflection in extant law. Finally, the fourth part analyzes the contribution of behavioral economics to fifteen legal spheres ranging from core doctrinal areas such as contracts, torts and property to areas such as taxation and antitrust policy.