Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition (Paperback)

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Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

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Paperback. A 'sample' is not only a concept from statistics that has penetrated common sense but also a metaphor that has inspired much research and theorizing in current psychology. The sampling approach emphasizes the selectivity and the biases that are inherent in the samples of information input with which judges and decision makers are fed. As environmental samples are rarely random, or representative of the world as a whole, decision making calls for censorship and critical evaluation of the data given. However, even the most intelligent decision makers tend to behave like 'naeive intuitive statisticians': quite sensitive to the data given but uncritical concerning the source of the data. Thus, the vicissitudes of sampling information in the environment together with the failure to monitor and control sampling effects adequately provide a key to re-interpreting findings obtained in the last two decades of research on judgment and decision making. Previous scientific attempts to explain the causes of wrong decisions have mainly focused on shortcomings in the cognitive processing of the information given. This book offers that the input of environmental information samples are biased in the first place, whereas the cognitive processing is often unbiased and remarkably accurate. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition (Paperback)
Author
Klaus Fiedler
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication year
2005
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new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0521539331
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9780521539333

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