[PDF] Individual Choice Behavior eBook

Author : R. Duncan Luce
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486153398

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This treatise presents a mathematical analysis of choice behavior. Starting with a general axiom, it then examines applications of the theory to substantive problems: psychophysics, utility, and learning. 1959 edition.

Author : Zheng Joyce Wang
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262361655

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The emerging interdisciplinary field of cognitive choice models integrates theory and recent research findings from both decision process and choice behavior. Cognitive decision processes provide the interface between the environment and brain, enabling choice behavior, and the basic cognitive mechanisms underlying decision processes are fundamental to all fields of human activity. Yet cognitive processes and choice processes are often studied separately, whether by decision theorists, consumer researchers, or social scientists. In Cognitive Choice Modeling, Zheng Joyce Wang and Jerome R. Busemeyer introduce a new cognitive modeling approach to the study of human choice behavior. Integrating recent research findings from both cognitive science and choice behavior, they lay the groundwork for the emerging interdisciplinary field of cognitive choice modeling.

Author : William Glasser, M.D.
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0062031023

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Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability that is the source of almost all unhappiness. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship–destroying external control psychology. For example, if you are in an unhappy relationship right now, he proposes that one or both of you could be using external control psychology on the other. He goes further. And suggests that misery is always related to a current unsatisfying relationship. Contrary to what you may believe, your troubles are always now, never in the past. No one can change what happened yesterday.

Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher :
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Choice (Psychology)
ISBN :

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The dissertation comprises a number of essays linked by a common theme. The common theme is that all the sections of the dissertation deal with one aspect or another of the theory of individual choice behavior. Section Two focuses on choices involving time; Section Three focuses on how information affects choices involving uncertainty. The final section, Section Four, reports on some empirical studies relating to the theoretical developments. Disciplines ranging as broadly as statistics, psychology, philosophy, and economics are concerned in one way or another with aspects of the theory of individual choice behavior.

Author : Robert J. Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :

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Research examining the process of individual decision making over time is briefly reviewed. We focus on two major areas of work in choice dynamics: research that has examined how current choices are influenced by the history of previous choices, and newer work examining how choices may be made to exploit expectations about options available in the future. A central theme of the survey is that if a general understanding of choice dynamics is to emerge, it will come through the development of boundedly-rational models of dynamic problem solving that lie on the interface between economics and psychology.

Author : Barry Schwartz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0061748994

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Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.