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Decision Making: A Very Short Introduction

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We are constantly making decisions. from everyday choices like whether to carry an umbrella, to complex issues involving risk, strategy, and long-term planning.

This Very Short Introduction explains how we make choices, exploring how we process information, learn from experience, and sometimes fail to make the 'right' decisions. Drawing on psychology, economics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to reveal the hidden mechanisms of decision-making, it offers a guide to how we decide - and how we might do it better.

Authors: Palminteri Stefano, Wyart Valentin
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780198869573
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2026

1:What is decision science?
2:Making perceptual decisions
3:Deciding and learning from trial-and-error
4:Deciding about risky and delayed outcomes
5:Deciding with others
6:Understanding decision errors
7:Pathological decision-making
8:Shaping or delegating decision-making
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Stefano Palminteri is Research Director at INSERM and leads the Human Reinforcement Learning team at ENS-DEC. His research, published in top journals like Nature Human Behaviour, has earned prestigious grants and awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant and the Humboldt Foundation's Bessel Prize.

Valentin Wyart is Research Director at INSERM and leads the Cognitive Variability team at ENS-PSL in Paris, France. His research has studied the psychology and neurophysiology of human decision-making, from visual decisions to value-based decisions, made under adverse conditions characterized by different forms of uncertainty.

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