In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunct...(展开全部)

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunct...(展开全部)

Dozens of books have been published recently on the errors and biases that affect our judgments and choices. Drawing on cognitive science, their lessons are excellent for many kinds of decisions - consumer choice and financial investments, for example - but stop short of addressing many of the most important decisions we face in management, where we can actively influence outco...(展开全部)

Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig shows, for many of the most important, more complex situations we face — in ...(展开全部)

When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial int...(展开全部)

格尔德•吉仁泽（Gerd Gigerenzer） 社会心理学家，德国柏林马普所(Max Planck Institute)人类发展研究中心主任，并在世界各国讲授风险课，教人们正确地认知风险和进行风险沟通，听他讲课的人有小学生以及杰出的医生、银行家、企业家和政治家。获得多个奖项，包括1991年的“美国科学促进会行为科学研究奖”和德国2002年度“科学书籍奖”。 他曾任美国芝加哥大学心理学教授和弗吉尼亚大学法学院客座教授。

An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simpl...(展开全部)

How do people really make decisions? By drawing on prior experience and using a combination of intuition and analysis. We have all seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned...(展开全部)

格尔德·吉仁泽（Gerd Gigerenzer），社会心理学家，德国柏林马普所（Max Planck Institute）人类发展研究中心主任，并在世界各国讲授风险课，教人们正确地认知风险和进行风险沟通，听他讲课的人有小学生以及杰出的医生、银行家、企业家和政治家。获得多个奖项，包括1991年的“美国科学促进会行为科学研究奖”和德国2002年度“科学书籍奖”。 他曾任美国芝加哥大学心理学教授和弗吉尼亚大学法学院客座教授。

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed by false assumptions that drive bad decisions that make us dangerously mistrustful as a society and hopelessly unhappy as individuals. The desire t...(展开全部)