This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making in the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1. How I Got Started Teaching Physicians and Judges Risk Literacy
- Part I. The Art of Risk Communication
- 2. Why Do Single Event Probabilities Confuse Patients?
- 3. HIV Screening: Helping Clinicians Make Sense of Test Results
- 4. Breast Cancer Screening Pamphlets Mislead Women
- Part II. Health Statistics
- 5. Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics
- 6. Public Knowledge of Benefits of Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening in Europe
- Part III. Smart Heuristics
- 7. Heuristic Decision Making
- 8. The Recognition Heuristic: A Decade of Research
- Part IV. Intuitions about Sports and Gender
- 9. The Hot Hand Exists in Volleyball and Is Used for Allocation Decisions
- 10. Stereotypes about Men's and Women's Intuitions: A Study of Two Nations
- Part V. Theory
- 11. As-If Behavioral Economics: Neoclassical Economics in Disguise?
- 12. Personal Reflections on Theory and Psychology
- References
- Index
