1st Edition

Individual Differences in Judgement and Decision-Making A Developmental Perspective

Edited By Maggie E. Toplak, Joshua Weller Copyright 2017
238 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

238 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

238 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

Children face an overwhelming amount of information and a range of different choices every day, and so there has never been a more important time to understand how children learn to make judgments and decisions in our modern world. Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision-Making presents cutting-edge developmental research to advance our knowledge and understanding of how these... Read more

 Introduction: Development of judgment and decision-making skills meets the study of individual differences - Toplak and Weller;  1. The When and What of Adolescents' Risky Choice- Van Duijvenvoorde, Blankenstein, Crone and Figner  2. Losses loom lasrger than gains when predicting behavioral risk outcomes- Weller, Kim and Leve  3. Decision-making under risk in adolescents- Primi, Donati, Chiesi and Panno  4. Gist is sophisticated yet simple- Weldon, Corbin, Garavito and Reyna  5. Temporal discounting and associations with cognitive abilities and adhd-related difficulties in a developmental sample- Toplak, Hosseini and Basile  6. Reflective thought and actively open-minded thinking- Baron, Gurcay and Metz  7. Individual differences in decision-making competence in different age groups- Bruine de Bruin and Parker  8. Perspective-taking abilities across the lifespan- Giroux, Coburn, Connolly and Bernstein  9. The link between math and logic in adolescence- Morsanyi, Kahl and Rooney  10. Mullet, Hofmans and Schlottmann;  afterword- Levin

Biography

Maggie E. Toplak is Associate Professor in Psychology, York University, Canada.

Joshua Weller is Assistant Professor in Psychology, Oregon State University, USA.