Many studies in the field of risk perception and acceptance of hazards include trust as an
explanatory variable. Despite this, the importance of trust has often been questioned. The …

In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated 'question-and-answer'strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

People are susceptible to an array of cognitive biases, which can result in systematic errors
and deviations from rational decision making. Over the past decade, an increasing amount …

Cover--Half-title--Title page--Copyright information--Epigraph--Table of contents--
Acknowledgments--Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus …

Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is
often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very …

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests:
rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people …

The endowment effect is the tendency for people who own a good to value it more than
people who do not. Its economic impact is consequential. It creates market inefficiencies and …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

" In this book, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive
science-the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. Stanovich …

While artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly applied for decision-making processes, ethical
decisions pose challenges for AI applications. Given that humans cannot always agree on …