Comparative Decision-Making Analysis

TABLE OF CONTENTS ; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ; PHILIP H. CROWLEY AND THOMAS R. ZENTALL ; CHAPTER 2. ECONOMIC DECISIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES ; EVELYN KORN AND JOHANNES ZIESECKE ; COMMENTARY 2.1. ADVOCATING FOR HOMO ECONOMICUS ; ERWIN AMANN ; COMMENTARY 2.2. THE NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS MODEL: EXTENSIONS AND LIMITS ; JACK SCHIEFFER ; CHAPTER 3. WHY MAKING A DECISION INVOLVES MORE THAN DECISION-MAKING: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IN HUMAN ACTION ; BERTRAM C. BRUCE ; COMMENTARY 3.1. PUNCTUATION, CONTINUITY, AND HISTORICITY: TRAVERSING THE IN-BETWEEN ; TRAVIS WHETSELL AND PATRICIA M. SHIELDS ; COMMENTARY 3.2. WHY WE WILL NEVER KNOW IF HUMAN DECISION MAKING IS UNIQUE ; EVELYN KORN ; COMMENTARY 3.3. FORKS IN THE ROAD FROM DECISION TO ACTION ; CHRIS HIGGINS ; CHAPTER 4. ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING IN THE ARGENTINE DELTA ; STEPHANIE C. KANE ; COMMENTARY 4.1. ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING, ; SOCIAL REALITY, AND PORT CITIES AS <"HOT SPOTS>" ; COMMENTARY 4.2. THE CREVICES OF UNREASON IN HUMAN DECISION MAKING ; BERTRAM C. BRUCE ; CHAPTER 5. THE SOCIAL NATURE OF HUMAN DECISION MAKING ; JAMES D. MORROW ; COMMENTARY 5.1. THE SOCIAL NATURE OF HUMAN DECISION MAKING: A COMPUTATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ; CRAIG BOUTILIER ; COMMENTARY 5.2. WHEN SHOULD WE EXPECT A NASH EQUILIBRIUM? ; BARRY O'NEILL ; CHAPTER 6: AMBIGUOUS DECISIONS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN ; IFAT LEVY ; COMMENTARY 6.1 AMBIGUOUS DECISIONS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN ; MING HSU AND LUSHA ZHU ; COMMENTARY 6.2 WHAT ANIMALS CAN TELL US ABOUT HUMAN CHOICE UNDER RISK ; THOMAS R. ZENTALL ; CHAPTER 7: WHAT CAN NEUROECONOMICS TELL US ABOUT ECONOMICS (AND VICE VERSA)? ; MARK DEAN ; COMMENTARY 7.1. DISCIPLINING BEHAVIORAL THEORIES THROUGH BRAIN-BASED MODELS OF DECISION-MAKING ; ISABELLE BROCAS AND JUAN D. CARRILLO ; COMMENTARY 7.2 ON THE BENEFITS OF STUDYING MECHANISMS UNDERLYING BEHAVIOR ; ANDREW SIH, ANDREW BIBIAN, NICK DIRIENZO, XIUXIANG MENG, PIERRE-OLIVER MONTIGLIO AND KEVIN RINGELMAN ; CHAPTER 8. BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES TO DECISION MAKING ; EDMUND FANTINO AND STEPHANIE STOLARZ-FANTINO ; COMMENTARY 8.1 CAN CHOICE BE SUBOPTIMAL? ; K. GEOFFREY WHITE ; COMMENTARY 8.2 HOW STUDYING ANIMALS CAN CLARIFY THE BASIS OF HUMAN DECISION MAKING ; THOMAS ZENTALL ; CHAPTER 9. A BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY VIEW OF DECISION MAKING: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW ; ANDREW SIH ; COMMENTARY 9.1 CROSSOVERS IN ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC MODELS OF DECISIONS ; JACK SCHIEFFER ; COMMENTARY 9.2 THE SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE AND THE POTENTIAL EMERGENCE OF A GENERAL THEORY OF DECISION MAKING ; DAVID F. WESTNEAT ; CHAPTER 10. USING EVOLUTIONARY THINKING TO CUT ACROSS DISCIPLINES: THE EXAMPLE OF THE ARGUMENTATIVE THEORY OF REASONING ; HUGO MERCIER ; COMMENTARY 10.1 EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT ; DAVID MOSHMAN ; COMMENTARY 10.2 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLASSICAL REASONING AND THE PROVENANCE OF REASONING BY ARGUMENTATION ; PHILIP H. CROWLEY ; COMMENTARY 10.3 A NEW LINK IN THE UNIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES OF COGNITION ; ALAIN TROGNON AND MARTINE BATT ; COMMENTARY 10.4: THE EVOLUTION OF ARGUMENT: A COMMENTARY ON MERCIER ; DAVID S. CHESTER, RICHARD S. POND, JR., AND C. NATHAN DEWALL ; CHAPTER 11. POOR DECISIONS ABOUT SECURITY ; BRUCE SCHNEIER AND DERIC MILLER ; COMMENTARY 11.1: POOR DECISIONS ABOUT SECURITY ; HELEN PUSHKARSKAYA AND IFAT LEVY ; COMMENTARY 11.2: HUMAN IRRATIONALITY AS A CONTRIBUTOR FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY-MAKERS ; DENIS HILTON AND CAROLINE ATTIA ; CHAPTER 12. INCREASING THE ACCURACY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION-MAKING ; SARAH A. CROWLEY AND PETER J. NEUFELD ; COMMENTARY 12.1. ROOTS OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS ; BRANDON L. GARRETT ; COMMENTARY 12.2. DRIVING FORCES FOR CHANGE ; REBECCA E. BUCHT ; CHAPTER 13. FORENSIC JUDGMENT AND DECISION-MAKING ; PETER A. F. FRASER-MACKENZIE, REBECCA E. BUCHT, & ITIEL E. DROR ; COMMENTARY 13.1 THE AWKWARD MARRIAGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SCIENCE ; SARAH CROWLEY ; COMMENTARY 13.2 IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER ; THOMAS R. ZENTALL ; CHAPTER 14. COMPUTATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT: REGRET-BASED MODELS FOR OPTIMIZATION AND PREFERENCE ELICITATION ; CRAIG BOUTILIER ; COMMENTARY 14.1. GROUP DECISION MAKING ON COMBINATORIAL DOMAINS ; JEROME LANG ; COMMENTARY 14.2. PUTTING PREFERENCES INTO COMPUTATIONAL CONTEXT ; JUDY GOLDSMITH ; COMMENTARY 14.3. BOTTLENECKS AND REGRET ; VINCENT CONITZER AND LIRONG XIA ; CHAPTER 15. IMPROVING PUBLIC POLICY DECISIONS IN CREATING INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS TO TRANSFER NATURAL DISASTER RISK IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; JERRY R. SKEES AND GRANT CAVANAUGH ; COMMENTARY 15.1 DECISION MAKING ABOUT REAL NEEDS OF ACTUAL PEOPLE ; HELEN PUSHKARSKYA ; COMMENTARY 15.2 DESIGNING MECHANISMS TO OVERCOME MARKET AND BEHAVIORAL FAILURES ; JACK SCHIEFFER ; CHAPTER 16. WHAT THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO DECISION MAKING HAS TO OFFER ; PHILIP H. CROWLEY AND THOMAS R. ZENTALL