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Choice, Decision, and Measurement

Essays in Honor of R. Duncan Luce

By: A.A.J. Marley (Editor)

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This volume is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, on the topics that provide its title -- choice, decision, and measurement. The conference was planned, and the volume prepared, in honor of Professor R. Duncan Luce on his 70th birthday. Following a short autobiographical statement by Luce, the volume is organized into four topics, to each of which Luce has made significant contributions.
The book provides an overview of current issues in each area and presents some of the best recent theoretical and empirical work. Personal reflections on Luce and his work begin each section. These reflections were written by outstanding senior researchers: Peter Fishburn (Preference and Decision Making), Patrick Suppes (Measurement Theory and Axiomatic Systems), William J. McGill (Psychophysics and Reaction Time), and W.K. Estes (Choice, Identification and Categorization).
The first section presents recent theoretical and empirical work on descriptive models of decision making, and theoretical results on general probabilistic models of choice and ranking. Luce's recent theoretical and empirical work on rank- and sign-dependent utility theory is important in many of these contributions. The second section presents results from psychophysics, probabilistic measurement, aggregation of expert opinion, and test theory. The third section presents various process oriented models, with supportive data, for tasks such as redundant signal detection, forced choice, and absolute identification. The final section contains theory and data on categorization and attention, and general theoretical results for developing and testing models in these domains.

Prefacep. ix
List of Contributorsp. xiii
List Of Refereesp. xv
Introductionp. 1
The Past Seven Years: 1988-95p. 3
Decision Making And Riskp. 15
Bookends: Recollections Of A Decision Theoristp. 17
Empirical Tests Of Luce's Rank- And Sign-Dependent Utility Theoryp. 25
The Utility Of Measuring And Modeling Perceived Riskp. 45
Do Risk Attitudes Reflect In The Eye Of The Beholder?p. 57
Violations Of Monotonicity In Judgment And Decision Makingp. 73
Preference, Measurement Theory, And Axiomatic Systemsp. 101
Duncan Luce As Measurement Theoristp. 103
A Stochastic Model For The Evolution Of Preferencesp. 111
Preference Models And Irreversibilityp. 131
Generalized Random Utility Models And The Representational Theory Of Measurement: A Conceptual Linkp. 153
On Subjective Intensity And Its Measurementp. 189
A Geometric Approach To Two Dimensional Measurementp. 207
Bisymmetry And Consistent Aggregation: Historical Review And Recent Resultsp. 225
Psychophysics And Response Timep. 235
The Writer Is Indebted To A Referee ..p. 237
Activation-State Representation Of Models For The Redundant-Signals-Effectp. 245
Process Representations And Decompositions Of Response Timesp. 255
A Limited Capacity, Wave Equality, Random Walk Model Of Absolute Identificationp. 279
The Generalized Area Theorem In Signal Detection Theoryp. 301
Choice And Categorizationp. 319
Some Reflections On The Role Of The Choice Model In Theories Of Categorization, Identification, And Learningp. 321
A Network Model For Multiple Choice: Accuracy And Response Timesp. 329
An Exemplar-Based Random-Walk Model Of Speeded Categorization And Absolute Judgmentp. 347
Categorization As A Special Case Of Decision-Making Or Choicep. 367
Toward An Analytic Model Of Attention To Visual Shapep. 389
Scientific Publications Of R. Duncan Lucep. 411
Referencesp. 429
Author Indexp. 459
Subject Indexp. 465
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ISBN: 9780805822342
ISBN-10: 0805822348
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 488
Published: 1st July 1997
Publisher: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC INC
Dimensions (cm): 24.384 x 15.697  x 3.556
Weight (kg): 1.012