Chapter 7: Heuristics and Shortcuts: Efficiency in Inference and Decision Making

This book comes with access to the following SAGE journal article and book chapters.

Dunning, D. (2012). Judgment and decision-making. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 251–272). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Nordgren, L. F., McDonnell, M.-H. M., & Loewenstein, G. (2011). What constitutes torture? Psychological impediments to an objective evaluation of enhanced interrogation tactics. Psychological Science, 22(5), 689–694.

Shapira, O., Liberman, N., Trope, Y., & Rim, S. Y. (2012). Levels of mental construal. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 229–250). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

For more information, take a look at some of the following additional readings

Crocker, J. (1981). Judgment of covariation by social perceivers. Psychological Bulletin, 90, 272–292.

Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124–1131.