We study the effectiveness of simple heuristics in multiattribute decision making. We consider the case of an additive separable utility function with nonnegative, nonincreasing attribute weights. In ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

The heuristics and biases literature claims that the substitution bias occurs when we replace a difficult judgment task with an easier one. According to Kahneman and Frederick (2002), we don’t even ...

In my last two entries on this site, I discussed biases and heuristics. I wrote about them separately because I had plenty to say about both, which, for anyone who knows me, is not a surprise. What I ...