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Problem solving, decision making, and professional judgment : a guide for lawyers and policymakers /

In Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment, Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger have written a systematic guide to creative problem solving that prepares students to exercise effective judgment and decision making skills in the complex social environments in which they will wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brest, Paul
Otros Autores: Krieger, Linda Hamilton, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Problem-solving and decision-making processes : deliberation, intuition, and expertise
  • Framing problems and identifying objectives and identifying problem causes
  • Generating alternatives : creativity in legal and policy problem solving
  • Choosing among alternatives
  • Introduction to statistics and probability
  • Scores, dollars, and other quantitative variables
  • Interpreting statistical results and evaluating policy interventions
  • Explaining and predicting one-time events
  • Biases in perception and memory
  • Biases in processing and judging information
  • The social perceiver : processes and problems in social cognition
  • Choices, consequences, and trade-offs
  • Complexities of decision making : relationships to our future selves
  • Complexities of decision-making continued : the power of frames
  • Decision making under risk
  • The role of affect in risky decisions
  • Social influence
  • Influencing behavior through cognition
  • Group decision making and the effects of accountability on decision quality
  • Conclusion : Learning from experience.