Year: 2023
Type: book
Abstract: Sampling approaches to judgment and decision making are distinct from traditional accounts in psychology and neuroscience. While these traditional accounts focus on limitations of the human mind as a major source of bounded rationality, the sampling approach originates in a broader cognitive-ecological perspective. It starts from the fundamental assumption that in order to understand intra-psychic cognitive processes one first has to understand the distributions of, and the biases built into, the environmental information that provides input to all cognitive processes. Both the biases and restriction, but also the assets and capacities, of the human mind often reflect, to a considerable degree, the irrational and rational features of the information environment and its manifestations in the literature, the Internet, and collective memory. Sampling approaches to judgment and decision making constitute a prime example of theory-driven research that promises to help behavioral scientists cope with the challenges of replicability and practical usefulness.
Authors: Klaus Fiedler, Peter Juslin, Jerker Denrell, Gordon D. A. Brown, Lukasz Walasek, Timothy J. Pleskac, Ralph Hertwig, Gaël Le Mens, Ido Erev, Ori Plonsky, Mandy Hütter, Zachary Adolph Niese, Brett K. Hayes, Saoirse Connor Desai, Keith Ransom, Charles Kemp, August Collsiöö, Joakim Sundh, Chris Harris, Ruud Custers, Hans Alves, Alex Koch, Christian Unkelbach, Franziska M. Bott, Thorsten Meiser, Balázs Kovács, Judith Avrahami, Yaakov Kareev, Cleotilde Gonzalez, Palvi Aggarwal, Johannes Prager, Linda McCaughey, Thorsten Pachur, Christin Schulze, Henrik Olsson, Mirta Galesic, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Yrian Derreumaux, Robin Bergh, Marcus Lindskog, Brent Hughes
Institutions: Heidelberg University, Uppsala University, University of Warwick
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4378799352