Individual Differences in Judgement and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective (Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138640557 ISBN 13: 9781138640559

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2016

Synopsis

Children face an overwhelming amount of information and a range of different choices every day, and so there has never been a more important time to understand how children learn to make judgments and decisions in our modern world. Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision-Making presents cutting-edge developmental research to advance our knowledge and understanding of how these competencies emerge.

Focusing on the role of individual differences, the text provides a complementary theoretical approach to understanding the development of judgment and decision-making skills, and how and why these competencies vary within and between different periods of development. Sampling a diverse set of developmental paradigms and measures, as well as considering typical and atypically developing samples, this volume provokes thinking about how we can support our children and youth to help them make better choices.

Drawing on the expertise of a range of international contributors, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of thinking and reasoning from both cognitive and developmental psychology backgrounds.

About this title

About the Author

Maggie E. Toplak is Associate Professor in Psychology, York University, Canada.

Joshua Weller is Assistant Professor in Psychology, Oregon State University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138640557
• ISBN 13: 9781138640559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Toplak Maggie E., Weller Joshua