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Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices

Author(s): Baruch Fischhoff (Author), Paul Slovic (Foreword)

Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: October 14, 2025
Language: English
Print length: 214 pages
ISBN-10: 0262553163
ISBN-13: 9780262553162

Book Description

A lively, authoritative insider’s account of how we make decisions and how decision-making research has developed over the last half century.

Decisions describes the evolution of decision science (also called behavioral decision research and related to behavioral economics) through its application to challenging personal and public policy decisions, since the inception of the field.

Baruch Fischhoff covers all major topics in basic research, including how people create options, determine what matters to them, evaluate their chances of achieving those goals, and engage their emotions. He shows how those processes play out in an exceptionally wide variety of decisions regarding health, safety, the environment, disasters, and national security, among other topics. He also examines how decision-making abilities vary across individuals and across the lifespan, as well as the ethics and politics of how research is conducted and its results are shared and applied.

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“Baruch Fischhoff was present at the inception. He was at Hebrew University in Jerusalem with Kahneman and Tversky when they began creating the universe of judgment and decision-making, biases, and heuristics, and what became behavioral economics. His name is most closely associated with hindsight bias, our tendency to think we knew it all along and to be “insufficiently surprised” by events. For the past 50 years, Fischhoff has been applying Bayesian inference, game theory, measure theory, and signal detection theory to an extraordinary array of real-world decision problems….The influence of Baruch’s published articles has been enormous, but it has been magnified even more by his participation on many committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, often as the committee chair, and his membership and leadership on key advisory committees of federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.”—3Quarks Daily

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“From one of the great pioneers in decision research, this engaging book shows how decisions can be better made by taking into account human behavior. Decisions is a valuable guide for individuals and organizations, as well as a compelling story well told.”
—Robert Axelrod, William D. Hamilton Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

“Decisions showcases Baruch Fischhoff’s true greatness, which lies in the generosity of spirit in which he views how humans make decisions and the generous ways in which he gifts the reader with practical tools to navigate uncertainty and complexity. With these tools, he has empowered countless individuals, corporations, and governments to make better, more informed decisions. We should look at this book as an invaluable addition to our toolkit.”
—Larry Brilliant, CEO, Evity Technologies

“Few contemporaries of Baruch Fischhoff have thought more carefully and dealt more extensively with rational decision making. In Decisions, Fischhoff distills decades of experience into key lessons about the elements that go into sound decisions and the pitfalls to avoid. Everyone who makes decisions has something to gain from this deeply informed book.”
—Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

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Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices

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