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Designing with the Mind in Mind, 2nd Edition
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Designing with the Mind in Mind, 2nd Edition

by Jeff Johnson
December 2013
Beginner
250 pages
6h 52m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 12

Human Decision Making is Rarely Rational

Abstract

Economists often assume that decision making is rational and stable, but research indicates that human decision making is rarely so. This chapter explains this, and explains how interactive systems can support more rational decision making when that is the goal, and can undermine it when that is the goal.

Keywords

decision making; rational; system one; system two; loss averse; risk averse; loss seeking; risk seeking; Kahneman and Tversky; fourfold pattern; bias; framing; decision support; information visualization; data visualization; persuasive systems

Theories of decision making and economics have long been based on the assumption that decision making is rational, selfish, and stable ...

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