The three chapters of this thesis investigate social aspects of judgment and decision making. Chapter One analyses the consequences of making decisions based on predictions of future well-being, and the conditions under which advice can improve these decisions. It shows that an interaction between errors in affective forecasts and the choice process leads to suboptimal decisions and disappointment, and establishes conditions under which advice reduces these effects. The second chapter investigates the boundaries of the result that eliciting more than one estimate from the same person and averaging these can lead to accuracy gains in judgment tasks. It reveals that the technique works only for specific kinds of questions, and people are relu...
textabstractIn most decisions we have to choose between options that involve some uncertainty about ...
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and c...
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The three chapters of this thesis investigate social aspects of judgment and decision making. Chapte...
This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology ...
The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of human behavior that goes beyond mone...
Tesis llevada a cabo para conseguir el grado de Doctor por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.--20...
Decision processes may be completed individually or coordinated by groups of people. Unstructured gr...
We review and integrate the extant knowledge on group-based forecasting, paying particular attention...
This dissertation examines how people aggregate quantitative advices to reach their own estimates. E...
Three experimental studies are reported, the first two of which explore differences in advisors’ and...
This research examines whether observers use decision strategies (choice vs. rejection) as input to ...
We review and integrate the extant knowledge on group-based forecasting, paying particular attention...
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation ...
According to the classic results of Galton and Condorcet, as well as in modern decision-making model...
textabstractIn most decisions we have to choose between options that involve some uncertainty about ...
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and c...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74724/1/j.1551-6709.2009.01010.x.pd
The three chapters of this thesis investigate social aspects of judgment and decision making. Chapte...
This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology ...
The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of human behavior that goes beyond mone...
Tesis llevada a cabo para conseguir el grado de Doctor por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.--20...
Decision processes may be completed individually or coordinated by groups of people. Unstructured gr...
We review and integrate the extant knowledge on group-based forecasting, paying particular attention...
This dissertation examines how people aggregate quantitative advices to reach their own estimates. E...
Three experimental studies are reported, the first two of which explore differences in advisors’ and...
This research examines whether observers use decision strategies (choice vs. rejection) as input to ...
We review and integrate the extant knowledge on group-based forecasting, paying particular attention...
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation ...
According to the classic results of Galton and Condorcet, as well as in modern decision-making model...
textabstractIn most decisions we have to choose between options that involve some uncertainty about ...
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and c...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74724/1/j.1551-6709.2009.01010.x.pd