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A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Weiss, Jie W. [Editor]; Weiss, David J. [Editor];
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- Title A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards
- Author Weiss, Jie W. [Editor]; Weiss, David J. [Editor];
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- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-11
- ISBN 9780195322989
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Hardback. New. Ward Edwards is well known as the father of behavioral decision making. In his 1954 Psychological Bulletin paper on decision making, he brought psychological ideas into what had been the province of economists. His influence in this realm is so pervasive that the Nobel committee was able to trace a direct path from Edwards's work to Daniel Kahneman's 2002 Prize for prospect theory. In a 1963 Psychological Review paper, Edwards brought Bayesian statistics to the attention of psychologists, who have continued to proliferate Bayesian ideas, underscoring the importance of the perspective. In a 1962 IEEE paper, Edwards foresaw how the world of intelligence gathering and analysis could by transformed by systems in which humans provided (subjective) probabilities and machines provided computational power. He also showed, in a 1986 book written with Detlof von Winterfeldt, how multiattribute utility analysis could help real-world decision makers generate satisfactory solutions to…
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