Defensive decision making occurs when a manager ranks an option as the best for the organization yet deliberately chooses a second-best option that protects him or herself against negative consequences. We study 950 managers in a public administration to analyze the frequency and causes of...

People often confuse intuition with a sixth sense or the arbitrary judgments of inept decision makers. In this book, Gerd Gigerenzer analyzes the war on intuition in the social sciences beginning with gendered perceptions of intuition as female, followed by opposition between biased intuition...

Introduction: Why cognitive operations? -- Chapter 1: Approaches to cognitive modelling -- Chapter 2: Decisions under risk -- Chapter 3: Strategic interactions -- Chapter 4: Newsvendor problems -- Chapter 5: Decisions under uncertainty -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: The future of cognitive modelling...