Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment

<br>"Brest and Krieger fill a huge vacuum. Their book is likely to transform the curricula of law schools and public policy schools by providing an excellent text for courses that systematically analyze the crucially important, but hitherto largely neglected, processes by which lawyers and policymakers exercise their judgment. Their multidisciplinary approach is ambitious and rigorous yet clear and accessible." <br>-- Richard L. Revesz <br>Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University School of Law <br><p><br>"Brest and Krieger pull off quite a trick here. The book is at once lucid, practical, and intellectually deep. The authors demonstrate admirable sophistication in interpreting the seminal psychological findings, as well as the rational choice inference and decision making models. At the same time, they repeatedly demonstrate how professionals might really improve how they do their work." <br>--Mark G. Kelman <br>James C. Gaither Professor of Law and Vice Dean, S

<br>Paul Brest is professor emeritus and former Dean of the Stanford Law School. He is President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He teaches a graduate course on Judgment and Decision Making at Stanford University. <br>Linda Hamilton Krieger is a Professor of Law and Director of the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law in Honolulu, Hawai'i and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.<br>

PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISIONMAKING Chapter 0. Preface Chapter 1. The Lawyer and Policymaker as Problem solver and Decisionmaker: The Roles of Deliberation, Intuition, and Expertise Chapter 2. Framing Problems and Identifying Objectives And Identifying Problem Causes Chapter 3. Generating Alternatives: Creativity in Legal and Policy Problem Solving Chapter 4. Choosing Among Alternatives PART TWO Making Sense of an Uncertain World Introduction to Part Two Chapter 5. Introduction to Statistics and Probability Chapter 6. Scores, Dollars, and Other Quantitative Variables Chapter 7. Interpreting Statistical Results Chapter 8. Explaining and predicting one-time events Chapter 9. Biases in Perception and Memory Chapter 10. Biases in Processing and Judging Information Chapter 11. The Social Perceiver: Processes and Problems in Social Cognition PART THREE MAKING DECISIONS Introduction to Part Three Chapter 12. Choices, Consequences, and Tradeoffs Chapter 13. Complexities of Decisionmaking: Relationships to our Future Selves Chapter 14. Complexities of Decisionmaking: The Power of Frames Chapter 15. Decisionmaking Under risk Chapter 16. The Role of Affect in Risky Decisions Conclusion to Part Three Part Four Influencing Decisions Introduction to Part Four Chapter 17: Social Influence Chapter 18: Influencing Behavior Through Cognition Chapter 19. Group Decisionmaking Chapter 20. Conclusion: Learning from Experience