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Author(s): Christoph Engel, Wolf Singer
ISBN(s): 9780262195805, 0262195801
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Year: 2008
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ISBN 10: 0262195801 

ISBN 13: 9780262195805

Author: Christoph Engel, Wolf Singer

Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the ability to process information consciously is severely limited and conscious decision makers are liable to hundreds of biases. Measured against the norms of rational choice theory, conscious decision makers perform poorly. But if people forego conscious control, in appropriate tasks, they perform surprisingly better: they handle vast amounts of information; they update prior information; they find appropriate solutions to ill-defined problems.

This inaugural Strüngmann Forum Report explores the human ability to make decisions, consciously as well as without conscious control. It explores decision-making strategies, including deliberate and intuitive; explicit and implicit; processing information serially and in parallel, with a general-purpose apparatus, or with task-specific neural subsystems. The analysis is at four levels — neural, psychological, evolutionary, and institutional — and the discussion is extended to the definition of social problems and the design of better institutional interventions. The results presented differ greatly from what could be expected under standard rational choice theory and deviate even more from the alternate behavioral view of institutions. New challenges emerge (for example, the issue of free will) and some purported social problems almost disappear if one adopts a more adequate model of human decision making.

Table of contents:

Better than conscious?: The brain, the psyche, behavior, and institutions
Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer

Conscious and nonconscious processes: distinct forms of evidence accumulation?
Stanislas Dehaene

The role of value systems in decision making
Peter Dayan

Neurobiology of decision making: an intentional framework
Michael N. Shadlen et al.

Brain signatures of social decision making
Kevin McCabe and Tania Singer

Neuronal correlates of decision making
Michael Platt et al.

The evolution of implicit and explicit decision making
Robert Kurzban

Passive parallel automatic minimalist processing
Roger Ratcliff and Gail McKoon

How culture and brain mechanisms interact in decision making
Merlin Donald

Marr, memory, and heuristics
Lael J. Schooler

Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making
Christian Keysers et al.

How evolution outwits bounded rationality: the efficient interaction of automatic and deliberate processes in decision making and implications for institutions
Andreas Glockner

The evolutionary biology of decision making
Jeffrey R. Stevens

Gene culture coevolution and the evolution of social institutions
Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson

Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions
Richard McElreath et al.

The neurobiology of individual decision making, dualism, and legal accountability
Paul W. Glimcher

Conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes in jurors’ decisions
Reid Hastie

Institutions for intuitive man
Christoph Engel

Institutional design capitalizing on the intuitive nature of decision making
Mark Lubell et al.

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