George Wu is Professor of Behavioral Science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, USA.  He studies the psychology of individual decision making, goal setting and cognitive biases in bargaining and negotiation. His research has been published widely in a number of journals in economics, management science, and psychology, including Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Management Science, Psychological Science, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has served as Department Editor of Management Science and is on numerous other editorial boards, including Decision Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Theory and Decision. Gideon Keren is Professor emeritus of Psychology at the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His early research focused on cognition and attention; his recent work has shifted toward the emerging field of behavioral decision making. His research interests include probabilistic reasoning and calibration of probabilities, the perception of randomness, intertemporal choice, framing effects, and the nature of trust.  His work has been published in a large number of journals, including Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Cognition, and Journal of Experimental Psychology, as well as in the main journals for judgment and decision making, including Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organizations, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

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• VOLUME IAbout the Contributors vii1 Introduction: A Bird’s Eye View of the History of Judgment and Decision Making 1Gideon Keren and George WuPart 1: The Multiple Facets of JDM: Traditional Themes 412 Decision Under Risk: From the Field to the Lab and Back 43Craig R. Fox, Carsten Erner, and Daniel J. Walters3 Ambiguity Attitudes 89Stefan T. Trautmann and Gijs van de Kuilen4 Multialternative Choice Models 117Douglas H. Wedell5 The Psychology of Intertemporal Preferences 141Oleg Urminsky and Gal Zauberman6 Overprecision in Judgment 182Don A. Moore, Elizabeth R. Tenney, and Uriel HaranPart 2: Relatively New Themes in JDM 2117 Joint versus Separate Modes of Evaluation: Theory and Practice 213Jiao Zhang8 Decisions From Experience 239Ralph Hertwig9 Neurosciences Contribution to JDM: Opportunities and Limitations 268Alan G. Sanfey and Mirre Stallen10 Utility: Anticipated, Experienced, and Remembered 295Carey K. MorewedgePart 3: New Psychological Takes on Judgment and Decision Making 33111 Under the Influence and Unaware: Unconscious Processing During Encoding, Retrieval, and Weighting in Judgment 333Emily Balcetis and Yael Granot12 Metacognition: Decision]making Processes in Self]monitoring and Self]regulation 356Asher Koriat13 Information Sampling and Reasoning Biases: Implications for Research in Judgment and Decision Making 380Klaus Fiedler and Florian Kutzner14 On the Psychology of Near and Far: A Construal Level Theoretic Approach 404Kentaro Fujita, Yaacov Trope, and Nira Liberman15 Optimism Biases: Types and Causes 431Paul D. Windschitl and Jillian L. O’Rourke Stuart16 Culture and Judgment and Decision Making 457Krishna Savani, Jaee Cho, Sooyun Baik, and Michael W. Morris17 Moral Judgment and Decision Making 479Daniel M. Bartels, Christopher W. Bauman, Fiery A. Cushman, David A. Pizarro, and A. Peter McGrawVOLUME IIPart 4: Old Issues Revisited 51718 Time]pressure Perception and Decision Making 519Lisa D. Ordóñez, Lehman Benson, III, and Andrea Pittarello19 Cognitive Hierarchy Process Models of Strategic Thinking in Games 543Colin F. Camerer20 Framing of Numerical Quantities 568Karl Halvor Teigen21 Causal Thinking in Judgments 590Reid Hastie22 Learning Models in Decision Making 629Timothy J. Pleskac23 Variability, Noise and Error in Decision Making Under Risk 658Graham Loomes24 Expertise in Decision Making 696Richard P. Larrick and Daniel C. FeilerPart 5: Applications 72325 Changing Behavior Beyond the Here and Now 725Todd Rogers and Erin Frey26 Decision Making and the Law: Truth Barriers 749Jonathan J. Koehler and John Meixner27 Medical Decision Making 775Anne M. Stiggelbout, Marieke de Vries, and Laura Scherer28 Behavioral Economics: Economics as a Psychological Discipline 800Devin G. Pope and Justin R. Sydnor29 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: A Behavioral Decision Research Perspective 828Alex B. van Zant and Laura J. Kray30 Decision Making in Groups and Organizations 849R. Scott Tindale and Katharina Kluwe31 Consumer Decision Making 875Mary Frances LucePart 6: Improving Decision Making 90132 Decision Technologies 903Candice H. Huynh, Jay Simon, and L. Robin Keller33 A User’s Guide to Debiasing 924Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, and John W. Payne34 What’s a “Good” Decision? Issues in Assessing Procedural and Ecological Quality 952Robin M. HogarthPart 7: Summary 97335 A Final Glance Backwards and a Suggestive Glimpse Forwards 975Gideon Keren and George WuIndex 985