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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1 Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases
Part II: Representativeness
2 Belief in the law of small numbers
3 Subjective probability: A judgment of representativeness
4 On the psychology of prediction
5 Studies of representativeness
6 Judgments of and by representativeness
Part III: Causality and attribution
7 Popular induction: Information is not necessarily informative
8 Causal schemas in judgments under uncertainty
9 Shortcomings in the attribution process: On the origins and maintenance of erroneous social assessments
10 Evidential impact of base rates
Part IV: Availxability
11 Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
12 Egocentric biases in availability and attribution
13 The availability bias in social perception and interaction
14 The simulation heuristic
Part V: Covariation and control
15 Informal covariation assessment: Data-based versus theory-based judgments
16 The illusion of control
17 Test results are what you think they are
18 Probabilistic reasoning in clinical medicine: Problems and opportunities
19 Learning from experience and suboptimal rules in decision making
Part VI: Overconfidence
20 Overconfidence in case-study judgments
21 A progress report on the training of probability assessors
22 Calibration of probabilities: The state of the art to 1980
23 For those condemned to study the past: Heuristics and biases in hindsight
Part VII: Multistage evaluation
24 Evaluation of compound probabilities in sequential choice
25 Conservatism in human information processing
26 The best-guess hypothesis in multistage inference
27 Inferences of personal characteristics on the basis of information retrieved from one’s memory
Part VIII: Corrective procedures
28 The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making
29 The vitality of mythical numbers
30 Intuitive prediction: Biases and corrective procedures
31 Debiasing
32 Improving inductive inference
Part IX: Risk perception
33 Facts versus fears: Understanding perceived risk
Part X: Postscript
34 On the study of statistical intuitions
35 Variants of uncertainty
References
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