Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected WritingsAmos Tversky (1937–1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman. |
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Tversky is one of the fundamental thinkers in this field I have followed his writings ( not intensively ) Since the seminal article in Science in 1974 Judgement under Uncertainty, written with D. Kahneman
Contents
Editors Introductory Remarks | 3 |
Additive Similarity Trees | 47 |
Studies of Similarity | 75 |
Weighting Common and Distinctive Features in Perceptual and | 97 |
Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Psychological Spaces | 129 |
On the Relation between Common and Distinctive Feature Models | 171 |
Editors Introductory Remarks | 189 |
Heuristics and Biases | 203 |
On the Elicitation of Preferences for Alternative Therapies | 583 |
Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice | 621 |
Ambiguity and Competence in Choice under | 645 |
Cumulative Representation of | 673 |
Nonconsequential Reasoning and | 703 |
A Cognitive Perspective | 729 |
Weighing Risk and Uncertainty | 747 |
Ambiguity Aversion and Comparative Ignorance | 777 |
The Cold Facts about the Hot Hand in Basketball | 257 |
The Weighing of Evidence and the Determinants of Confidence | 275 |
Calibration Resolution | 301 |
A Nonextensional Representation of Subjective | 329 |
On the Belief That Arthritis Pain Is Related to the Weather | 377 |
Editors Introductory Remarks | 405 |
Substitutability and Similarity in Binary Choices | 419 |
The Intransitivity of Preferences | 435 |
A Theory of Choice | 463 |
Preference Trees | 493 |
An Analysis of Decision under Risk | 549 |
A BeliefBased Account of Decision under Uncertainty | 795 |
SelfDeception and the Voters Illusion | 825 |
Contingent Weighting in Judgment and Choice | 845 |
Preference Reversals | 875 |
Discrepancy between Medical Decisions for Individual Patients and for | 887 |
Endowment and Contrast in Judgments of WellBeing | 917 |
ReasonBased Choice | 937 |
ContextDependence in Legal Decision Making | 963 |
Amos Tverskys Complete Bibliography | 995 |
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Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings Amos Tversky,Eldar Shafir No preview available - 2004 |
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References to this book
Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie des Risikos: Eine Analyse am Beispiel ... Oliver Kessler No preview available - 2008 |

