David A. Lagnado

Explaining the Evidence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for students, researchers and academics interested in reasoning and evidence. It presents a novel perspective on human thinking, exposing common pitfalls and proposing new methods to help make better decisions. The author uses crime cases to show how to understand both legal and everyday problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9781107006003
• ISBN-10: 1107006007
• Artikelnr.: 62295506

Autorenporträt

David Lagnado is Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences in the Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL. He has written over 100 articles and co-authored a textbook on the psychology of decision making. He has worked with US intelligence, the UK government and various legal and financial institutions, looking at methods to improve reasoning and decision making.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Cliff Death
2. Models in Mind
3. Causal Modelling
4. Thinking Beyond Biases
5. Expert Reasoning in Crime Investigation
6. Questions of Evidence
7. Competing Causes
8. Confirmation Bias: Good, Bad and Ugly
9. Telling Stories
10. Idioms for Legal Reasoning
11. Causal Reasoning in a Time of Crisis
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