Decision Making

Decision Making
Author: Irving Lester Janis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1979-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780029161906

Hard Choices

Hard Choices
Author: Isaac Levi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1990-04-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521386302

This book explores the consequences of denying the assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under unresolved conflict.

Conflict

Conflict
Author: Neil D. Shortland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190623454

Conflict: How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions is about making hard choices--where all outcomes are potentially negative. The authors draw on interviews conducted with soldiers about the situations they faced and the decisions they made at war. These are vivid and sometimes distressing stories. They form the data from which the authors explore the cognitive processes associated with choice, commitment to action and (sometimes) error, as well as goal directed thinking, innovation and courage. By referring to real cases, Conflict invites readers to consider their own responses under extreme circumstances and ask themselves how they would choose between difficult options. In doing so this book will go some way to helping readers understand what it feels like when choosing between least-worst decisions.

Decision Making

Decision Making
Author: Irving Lester Janis
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1977
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Rational Choice and Strategic Conflict

Rational Choice and Strategic Conflict
Author: Gabriel Frahm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3110596105

"This book is refreshing, innovative and important for several reasons. Perhaps most importantly, it attempts to reconcile game theory with one-person decision theory by viewing a game as a collection of one-person decision problems. As natural as this approach may seem, it is hard to find game theory books that really implement this view. This book is a wonderful exception, in which the transition between decision theory and game theory is both smooth and natural. It shows that decision theory and game theory can go—and, in fact, must go—hand in hand. The careful exposition, the many illustrative examples, the critical assessment of traditional game theory concepts, and the enlightening comparison with the subjectivistic approach advocated in this book, make it a pleasure to read and a must have for anyone interested in the foundations of decision theory and game theory." Andrés Perea (Maastricht University) "Gabriel Frahm's relatively nontechnical book is a bold synthesis of decision theory and game theory from a Bayesian or subjectivist perspective. It distinguishes between decisions, or one-person games, and games with two or more players, but Frahm argues that this distinction is not always necessary—the two kinds of games can be analyzed within a common theoretical framework. He models the dynamics of choice in several different settings (e.g., information may be complete or incomplete as well as perfect or imperfect), including one in which players look ahead and make farsighted calculations on which they base their choices. His book contains many provocative examples that illustrate the advantages of a unified theory of rational decision-making." Steven J. Brams (New York University)

Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships

Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships
Author: Erich Kirchler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135816883

Interdisciplinary approach, relevant to social psychology, economic psychology and decision making Innovative research methods, including, long-term diary study of forty couples Relevant to everyday life, so of interest not only to psychologists, but social scientists and those working in consumer research

Conflict and Decision-making in Close Relationships

Conflict and Decision-making in Close Relationships
Author: Erich Kirchler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0863778119

"Central to the authors' research is a unique diary study of 40 couples, who kept a daily record of their joint decisions over the course of a year. The diaries show how challenging, varied and complex the conflicts and decision making of normal everyday life can be and reveal that frequently goals change during the decision-making process with the result that the final outcome often achieves a goal distinct from the original intention. Furthermore, the dynamics of decision-making differ with the problem at stake, the decision-making history of the couple, and the quality of the partnership. The results of the diary study are discussed within the overall context of current research in the field as a whole including discussion of joint decision-making case studies, close relationships, decision-making research in general and special research methods.

Conflict and Tradeoffs in Decision Making

Conflict and Tradeoffs in Decision Making
Author: Elke U. Weber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521772389

The essays in this book address questions about the causes of conflict and its effects.

Institutions and Social Conflict

Institutions and Social Conflict
Author: Jack Knight
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1992-10-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521421898

A thorough critique of theories of institutional change followed by the development of a new theory emphasising the role of distributional conflict in the emergence of social institutions.