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1. The Social Psychology of Expertise

   Case Studies in Research, Professional Domains, and Expert Roles

   By Harald A. Mieg

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   The Social Psychology of Expertise offers an integrative perspective to the analysis of experts and expertise in organizations, social roles, management, etc. It is the first book to link the psychology of expertise to sociology, particularly the sociology of professions. By examining the...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Practicing Perfection

   Memory and Piano Performance

   By Roger Chaffin, Gabriela Imreh, Mary Crawford

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   The memory feats of famous musicians seem almost superhuman. Can such extraordinary accomplishments be explained by the same principles that account for more ordinary, everyday memory abilities? To find out, a concert pianist videotaped her practice as she learned a new piece for performance, the...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
3. Informed by Knowledge

   Expert Performance in Complex Situations

   Edited by Kathleen L. Mosier, Ute M. Fischer

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme...

   Published September 21st 2010 by Psychology Press
4. Perspectives on Cognitive Task Analysis

   Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice

   By Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis that focus on the study of cognitive work. Through this detailed historical analysis, it is made apparent how task analysis...

   Published September 8th 2008 by Psychology Press
5. Expertise Out of Context

   Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making

   Edited by Robert R. Hoffman

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. For example, a medical doctor may be called upon to diagnose a rare disease or perform emergency surgery outside his or her area of...

   Published May 21st 2007 by Psychology Press
6. How Professionals Make Decisions

   Edited by Henry Montgomery, Raanan Lipshitz, Berndt Brehmer

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   This volume is the fruit of the 5th conference on Naturalistic Decision Making which focused on the importance of studying people who have some degree of expertise in the domain in which they make decisions. The substantive concerns pertain to how individuals and groups make decisions in...

   Published September 22nd 2004 by CRC Press
7. Linking Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making

   Edited by Eduardo Salas, Gary A. Klein

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM). The objectives of the conference were to: *make American researchers more aware of NDM research being conducted abroad, particularly in Europe; *connect NDM research with work in management...

   Published August 11th 2001 by Psychology Press
8. Linking Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making

   Edited by Eduardo Salas, Gary A. Klein

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM). The objectives of the conference were to: *make American researchers more aware of NDM research being conducted abroad, particularly in Europe; *connect NDM research with work in management...

   Published June 30th 2001 by Psychology Press
9. The Social Psychology of Expertise

   Case Studies in Research, Professional Domains, and Expert Roles

   By Harald A. Mieg

   Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

   The Social Psychology of Expertise offers an integrative perspective to the analysis of experts and expertise in organizations, social roles, management, etc. It is the first book to link the psychology of expertise to sociology, particularly the sociology of professions. By examining the...

   Published May 31st 2001 by Psychology Press
10. Cognitive Task Analysis

    Edited by Jan Maarten Schraagen, Susan F. Chipman, Valerie J. Shalin

    Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

    Cognitive task analysis is a broad area consisting of tools and techniques for describing the knowledge and strategies required for task performance. Cognitive task analysis has implications for the development of expert systems, training and instructional design, expert decision making and...

    Published July 12th 2000 by Psychology Press