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Author : Clifford Richard Bell
Release : 1979
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Uncertain Outcomes by : Clifford Richard Bell
Download or read book Uncertain Outcomes written by Clifford Richard Bell. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. Ames
Release : 1982-07-01
Genre : Science and state
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Book Synopsis Outcome Uncertain by : Mary E. Ames
Download or read book Outcome Uncertain written by Mary E. Ames. This book was released on 1982-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertrand Munier
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Risk, Decision and Rationality by : Bertrand Munier
Download or read book Risk, Decision and Rationality written by Bertrand Munier. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision Theory has considerably developed in the late 1970's and the 1980's. The evolution has been so fast and far-r2aching that it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of the new state of the art. After a decade of new contributions, there was a need for an overview' of the field. This book is intended to fill the gap. The reader will find here thirty~nine selected papers which were given at FUR-III, the third international confe rence on the Foundations and applications of Utility, Risk and decision theories, held in Aix-en-Provence in June 1986. An introductory chapter will provide an overview of the main questions raised on the subject since the 17th Century and more particularly so in the last thirty years, as well as some elementary information on the experimental and theoretical results obtained. It is thus hoped that any reader with some basic background in either Economics, Hanagement or Operations Research will be able to read profitably the thirty-nine other chapters. Psychologists, Sociologists, Social Philosophers and other specialists of the social sciences will also read this book with interest, as will high-level practitioners of decision~making and advanced students in one of the abovementioned fields. An expository survey of this volume will be found at the end of the introductory chapter, so that any of the seven parts of the book can be put by the reader in due perspective.
Author : Robert M. Arkin
Release : 2013-05-13
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Handbook of the Uncertain Self by : Robert M. Arkin
Download or read book Handbook of the Uncertain Self written by Robert M. Arkin. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook explores the cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty. It showcases both the diversity and the unity that defines contemporary perspectives on uncertainty in self within social and personality psychology. The contributions to the volume are all written by distinguished scholars in personality, social psychology, and clinical psychology united by their common focus on the causes and consequences of self-uncertainty. Chapters explore the similarities and differences between personal uncertainty and other psychological experiences in terms of their nature and relationship with human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior. Specific challenges posed by personal uncertainty and the coping strategies people develop in their daily life are identified. There is an assessment of the potential negative and positive repercussions of coping with the specific experience of self-uncertainty, including academic, health, and relationship outcomes. Throughout, strategies specifically designed to assist others in confronting the unique challenges posed by self-uncertainty in ways that emphasize healthy psychological functioning and growth are promoted. In addition, the contributions to the Handbook touch on the psychological, social, and cultural context of the new millennium, including concepts such as Friedman’s "flat world," confidence, the absence of doubt in world leaders, the threat of terrorism since 9/11, the arts, doubt and religious belief, and views of doubt as the universal condition of humankind. The Handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and senior undergraduate and graduate students in social and personality psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, educational psychology, and developmental psychology.
Author : Stefan Riedener
Release : 2021-10-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Uncertain Values by : Stefan Riedener
Download or read book Uncertain Values written by Stefan Riedener. This book was released on 2021-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)—the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if it has the greater expected value across axiologies. But the expected value of an option depends on quantitative probability and value facts, and in particular on value comparisons across axiologies. We need to explain what it is for such facts to hold. Also, EVM is by no means self-evident. We need an argument to defend that it’s true. This book introduces an axiomatic approach to answer these worries. It provides an explication of what EVM means by use of representation theorems: intertheoretic comparisons can be understood in terms of facts about which options are better than which, and mutatis mutandis for intratheoretic comparisons and axiological probabilities. And it provides a systematic argument to the effect that EVM is true: the theory can be vindicated through simple axioms. The result is a formally cogent and philosophically compelling extension of standard decision theory, and original take on the problem of axiological or normative uncertainty.
