The theory of decision making

Edwards, W. (1954). The theory of decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 51(4), 380-417.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1954

Volume

51

Issue

4

Pages

380-417

DOI

10.1037/h0053870

DOI registrant

American Psychological Association

Link

https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0053870

Cited from

cognitive_science

Cited by

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Primes

• Decision
  • It spans decision theory (utility, expected value, Bayesian decision rules), behavioral economics (revealed preference, heuristics and biases), management science (decision rights, governance structures), artificial intelligence (action selection, reinforcement learning), philosophy (agency, free will), and applied domains from medicine (clinical decision-making) to public policy (cost-benefit analysis, regulatory choice), a multidisciplinary scope that Edwards (1954) first surveyed in his canonical review.

    This sourceCanonical interdisciplinary survey (with a 209-item bibliography) that introduced expected-utility decision theory to psychologists and established decision-making as a multi-domain field.

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