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The Handbook of Cognition provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The editors have gathered together a team of world-leading researchers in specialist areas of the field, both traditional and `hot' new areas, to present a benchmark - in terms of theoretical insight and advances in methodology - of the discipline. This book contains a thorough overview of the most significant and current research in cognitive psychology that will serve this academic community like no other volume.
Judgment and Decision Making
Judgment and Decision Making
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering.
Bertrand Russell
The above quotation suggests that our ability to properly evaluate evidence is crucial to our well-being. It has been noted elsewhere that only a very small number of things in life are certain, implying that assessing ‘degree of certainty’ is not only important, but common. Lacking omniscience, we constantly experience uncertainty, not only with respect to the future (will it rain tomorrow?), but also the present (is my colleague honest?) and the past (did the defendant commit the crime?).
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