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Review "What distinguishes this book is not only its clear and lucid style, but also that it covers a number of new and emerging areas. It not only provides a good basis for understanding contemporary theory and research, but also includes important pointers to the ways the area is likely to develop over the next few years." - A. John Maule, Professor of Human Decision Making, Leeds University Business School, UK "Straight Choices captures the excitement and innovative nature of research into decision making in everyday life and leaves the reader hungry to learn more. It is a remarkable springboard into understanding what we know and to developing one's own decision making skills." - Robin M. Hogarth, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

About the Author Ben Newell is a Senior lecturer in Cognitive Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a Research Fellow of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Dr Newell’s research interests include judgment and decision making; behavioural economics and the implicit-explicit distinction in human learning and memory. David Lagnado is a lecturer in Cognitive and Decision Sciences in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, England and a Research Fellow of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Dr. Lagnado’s research interests include causal and probabilistic reasoning, judgment and decision making, and questions of rationality.

David Shanks is head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, and Professor of Psychology, at University College London, England, and is a founder member of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Professor Shanks’ research interests include learning, memory, and decision making; the neuroscience of memory and amnesia, and the associated implicit-explicit distinction; computational modeling, especially with neural network models; and behavioural economics.

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We all face a perplexing array of decisions every day. Straight Choices provides an integrative account of the psychology of decision making, in which clear connections are made between empirical results and how these results can help us to understand our uncertain world. Throughout the text, there is an emphasis on the relationship between learning and decision making. The authors argue that the best way to understand how and why decisions are made is in the context of the learning and knowledge acquisition that precedes them and the feedback that follows them. The mechanisms of learning and the structure of environments in which decisions are made are carefully examined to explore the ways in which they act on our choices. From this, the authors go on to consider whether we are all constrained to fall prey to biases or whether with sufficient exposure can we find optimal decision strategies and improve our decision making. This novel approach integrates findings from the decision and learning literatures to provide a unique perspective on the psychology of decision making. It will be of interest to researchers and students in cognitive psychology, as well as researchers in economics and philosophy interested in the nature of decision making.

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Sales Rank: #3297185 in Books Brand: Brand: Psychology Press Published on: 2007-08-04 Released on: 2010-05-14 Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 9.21" h x .60" w x 6.14" l, .90 pounds Binding: Paperback 264 pages

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Review "What distinguishes this book is not only its clear and lucid style, but also that it covers a number of new and emerging areas. It not only provides a good basis for understanding contemporary theory and research, but also includes important pointers to the ways the area is likely to develop over the next few years." - A. John Maule, Professor of Human Decision Making, Leeds University Business School, UK

"Straight Choices captures the excitement and innovative nature of research into decision making in everyday life and leaves the reader hungry to learn more. It is a remarkable springboard into understanding what we know and to developing one's own decision making skills." - Robin M. Hogarth, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

About the Author Ben Newell is a Senior lecturer in Cognitive Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a Research Fellow of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Dr Newell’s research interests include judgment and decision making; behavioural economics and the implicit-explicit distinction in human learning and memory. David Lagnado is a lecturer in Cognitive and Decision Sciences in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, England and a Research Fellow of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Dr. Lagnado’s research interests include causal and probabilistic reasoning, judgment and decision making, and questions of rationality. David Shanks is head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, and Professor of Psychology, at University College London, England, and is a founder member of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Professor Shanks’ research interests include learning, memory, and decision making; the neuroscience of memory and amnesia, and the associated implicit-explicit distinction; computational modeling, especially with neural network models; and behavioural economics.

Most helpful customer reviews 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Flounders on the the Implications of the Ellsberg Paradox for Decision Theory in general By Michael Emmett Brady An extremely weak link in this book is its attempted handling in chapter 8 of the Ellsberg paradox within the very narrow confines of both Subjective ,Bayesian probability theory and the marriage of expected utility to the Bayesian Subjectivist approach in the form of Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) theory.Let us take a very straightforward version of the Ellsberg paradox(Quarterly Journal of Economics,1961)-A decision maker is given the choice of drawing from two different urns.The first urn has precisely 100 red and black balls. The decision maker is told that this urn has precisely 50 black balls and 50 red balls.This urn has a weight of the evidence,w, of 1,where Keynes's w is defined on the unit interval [0,1]or a rho value of 1,where Ellsberg's rho is also defined on the unit interval [0,1] .The second urn has the same shape. It also has 100 red and black balls .However,the decision maker does not know the number of red or black balls in urn 2.Urn 2 has a very low weight of the evidence or rho value.Additionally ,the decision maker is told that if he draws out a red ball he wins $100.00 while if he draws out a black ball he wins $0.00.This problem,first specified by J M Keynes in his A Treatise on Probability(1921,p.76,p.315,p.315,ft.2;it is also contained in Keynes's 1907 and 1908 Cambridge Fellowship theses) without the additional specification of the dollar outcomes,demonstrates the very limited special case nature of the SEU rational actor model,which assumes that the decision maker is always able to either specify an exact,precise,definite,determinate,unique,linear,single number estimate of the probability or that the decision makers can be modeled as if they were able to do so.The actual decision that is chosen conforms to an analysis of their behavior based on the assumption that they can calculate

precisely the odds for and against any outcome.This claim is identical to the claim that Jeremy Bentham made originally in 1787.J M Keynes describes this view of how individuals make decisions as Benthamite Utilitarianism.Keynes's position is that,unless you are dealing with the life and physical sciences,where the standard error of the estimate is low and the standard error can be used as an approximation for the weight of the evidence,w(or for rho),the best a decision maker will be able to do is to provide an indeterminate or interval estimate of the probability.The Ellsberg problem has been given to millions of subjects since 1960.The approximate breakdown ,in terms of experimental subjects choosing to bet on balls drawn from urn 1 versus urn 2,is that roughly 75 % of subjects choose urn 1 to draw from ,20% choose urn 2 to draw from ,and only 5 % make the choice consistent with subjective probability theory,which is that the decision maker MUST be indifferent between the two urns,based on spurious claims that the decision maker can estimate an exact ,precise unique answer of 1/2 for the probability of red and black balls drawn from urn 2.The % results are approximately the same if the decision maker is allowed to draw a 2 or 4 ball sample out of urn two ,either with or without replacement. Keynes also argued that the outcomes would also most likely require interval estimates(see pp.311-315,TP).A major point of disagreement between Keynes and F. Ramsey was over whether the probability estimates were point or interval.Ramsey claimed that ALL probabiolity estimates MUST be point estimates so that one could apply the addition and multiplication laws required for the calculation of the conditional probabilities used in all tree diagrams and decision trees.Recently,Kadane,Schervish,and Siedenfeld,in their " Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics "(Cambridge University Press,1999) have completely thrown in the towel and admitted implicitly that Keynes and Ellsberg was right and Ramsey,De Finetti,and Savage were incorrect.The book is composed of 16 essays,all of which have been previously published in academic journals and/or other books.Throughout the book,the authors concede that there are many holes and deficiencies in the logical foundations of the subjectivist approach.The biggest hole is vastly understated by KSS: " In fact,it seems reasonable to deny that there are consequences in practical decisions.Thus,our position is that,lacking consequences,expected utility theory must treat probability distributions as extraneous(italicized)..."(KSS,1999,p.195).Of course,"...lacking consequences..." means that the outcomes are state independent.On pp.157-160,KSS had already demonstrated the near impossibility in the real world of being able to specify outcomes that would make their utilities state independent.Given that the subjective probabilities are completely extraneous,there is no longer any way in which the a priori beliefs of a decision maker can be represented by a unique probability distribution on purely decision theoretic grounds alone.This means that unique,definite,precise,numerical ,single number estimates of subjective probabilities do not exist.This result goes to the heart of the entire edifice erected by Ramsey,De Finetti,and Savage,in particular.Savage argued that,based on a careful elicitation of subjective preferences based on betting quotients,a unique probability measure(distribution)can be defined to represent the agent's preference relation.Nowhere is it stated by KSS that this position( of Savage) goes to the heart of the dispute ,between Keynes and Ramsey on the one hand, and Savage and Ellsberg on the other hand,about the inherent indeterminateness of many probability estimates.The comparative -interval estimate-approach to estimating probabilities,presented by Keynes for the first time in the A Treatise on Probability(TP;1921),is fully operational since all of the problems that used the difficult Boolean approach can instead use the substantially easier integer-mixed integer linear programming approach in order to obtain solutions.It appears that Savage's approach is a very special case of Ellsberg's(Keynes's) approach that is applicable only when a single,unique probability distribution can be specified a priori. KSS's technical result,first presented in 1990 in the Journal of the American Statistical Association(JASA), completely undermines the logical ,decision theoretic foundations of the subjectivist approach to estimating probabilities.

Newell and his coauthors have failed to integrate these results into their discussions.The book is thus theoretically flawed.SEU theory is a very special theory that can rarely be applied in the real world.It suffers from the same flaws that existed in the 1787 work of Jeremy Bentham.All existing macroeconomic(Rational Expectations Hypothesis-REH) and finance economic models and theories(Efficient Market Hypothesis-EMH)are based on SEU. Newell and his coauthors need to fundamentally revise this chapter,as well as chapters 5 and 6 on how decision makers appraise probabilities,and chapter 9 on how decision makers actually make estimates of probabilities that can't be based on the mathematical laws of probability that require,as a necessary condition,that w=1 or rho =1.Keynes was well,and still is ,ahead of Kahneman and Tversky 's Prospect theory.Keynes had already recognized the phenomenon of sub-and super nonadditive decision weights that result from the sub and super proportionality of probability preferences that are nonlinear,as opposed to the SEU theory that claims,erroneously,that all probability preferences are linear. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great introductory book By Benjamin Johnston I picked this book up, being myself entirely new to the psychology of decision making. I found it an excellent overview of the field, and full of many practical insights and observations, and offered detailed information about many studies (and many references serving as a starting point for deeper study). The book is highly readable - I read it cover-to-cover and enjoyed it. It provides about the right level of details for an introduction to the field. The authors emphasise concepts, rather than bogging down into detail. Each chapter is fairly self-contained, introducing a sub-field in the discipline. See all 3 customer reviews...

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About the Author Ben Newell is a Senior lecturer in Cognitive Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a Research Fellow of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Dr Newell’s research interests include judgment and decision making; behavioural economics and the implicit-explicit distinction in human learning and memory. David Lagnado is a lecturer in Cognitive and Decision Sciences in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, England and a Research Fellow of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Dr. Lagnado’s research interests include causal and probabilistic reasoning, judgment and decision making, and questions of rationality. David Shanks is head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, and Professor of Psychology, at University College London, England, and is a founder member of the UCL Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution. Professor Shanks’ research interests include learning, memory, and decision making; the neuroscience of memory and amnesia, and the associated

implicit-explicit distinction; computational modeling, especially with neural network models; and behavioural economics.

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