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A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards

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Contributors to Papers Written for This Volume

 

ix
Introduction by the Editors

 

xi
Introduction to the List of Ward Edwards’s Publications

 

xiii
Chronological List of Publications Written or Co-Authored by Ward Edwards

 

xv
I Papers on Behavioral Decision Theory

 

 

Chapter 1. Edwards, W. (1954). The theory of decision making.

Psychological Bulletin, 51, 380–417

 

3

Chapter 2. Edwards, W. (1961). Behavioral decision theory.

Annual Review of Psychology, 1961, 12, 473–498

 

33

Chapter 3. Edwards, W. (1961). Probability learning in 1000 trials.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 385–394

 

52

Chapter 4. Edwards, W. (1962). Dynamic decision theory and

probabilistic information processing.

Human Factors, 4, 59–73 

 

62

Chapter 5. Edwards, W. (1962). Subjective probabilities inferred

from decisions. Psychological Review, 69, 109–135 

 

76

Chapter 6. Phillips, L. D., & Edwards, W. (1966). Conservatism in a

simple probability inference task. Journal of Experimental

Psychology, 72, 346–354

 

98

Chapter 7. Miller, L. W., Kaplan, R. J., & Edwards, W. (1969). JUDGE:

A laboratory evaluation. Organizational Behavior and Human

Performance, 4, 97–111

 

109

Chapter 8.  Edwards, W. (1971). Bayesian and regression models of human

information processing—A myopic perspective.

Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 6, 639–648

 

119

Chapter 9. Fryback, D. G., & Edwards, W. (1973). Choices among bets

by Las Vegas gamblers: Absolute and contextual effects.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 98, 271–278 

 

125

Chapter 10. Edwards, W. (1998). Hailfinder: Tools for and experiences with

Bayesian normative modeling. American Psychologist, 53, 416–428

 

134
II Papers on Statistics and Methodology

 

 

Chapter 11. Edwards, W. (1961). Costs and payoffs are instructions.

Psychological Review, 68, 275–284

 

153

Chapter 12. Edwards, W., Lindman, H., & Savage, L. J. (1963).

Bayesian statistical inference for psychological research.

Psychological Review, 70, 193–242

 

161

Chapter 13. Edwards, W. (1965). Tactical note on the relation between

scientific and statistical hypotheses. Psychological

Bulletin, 63, 400–402

 

203

Chapter 14. Slovic, P., Lichtenstein, S., & Edwards, W. (1965).

Boredom-induced changes in preferences among bets.

American Journal of Psychology, 78, 208–217

 

207

Chapter 15. Edwards, W. (1983). Human cognitive capabilities,

representativeness, and ground rules for research.

In P. C. Humphreys, O. Svenson, & A. Vari (Eds.),

Analyzing and aiding decision processes (pp. 507–513).

Amsterdam: North-Holland

 

215

Chapter 16. von Winterfeldt, D., & Edwards, W. (1982). Costs and payoffs in

perceptual research. Psychological Bulletin, 91, 609–622

 

220

Chapter 17. Edwards, W., Schum, D., & Winkler, R. L. (1990). Murder

and (of?) the likelihood principle: A trialogue.

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 3, 75–87

 

234

Chapter 18. Weiss, D. J., & Edwards, W. (2005). A mean for all seasons.

Behavior Research Methods, 37, 677–683

 

246

Chapter 19. Weiss, J. W., Edwards, W., & Weiss, D. J. (written for

this volume). The clinical significance decision

 

256

Chapter 20. Weiss, D. J., Edwards, W., & Shanteau, J. (written for

this volume).  The measurement of behavior: Indices and standards

 

262
III Papers on Diagnosis

 

 

Chapter 21. Gustafson, D. H., Edwards, W., Phillips, L. D., & Slack, W. V.

(1969). Subjective probabilities in medical diagnosis.

IEEE Transactions on Man-Machine Systems, MMS-10, 3, 61–65

 

271

Chapter 22. Edwards, W. (1972). N = 1: Diagnosis in unique cases.

In J. A. Jacquez (Ed.) Computer diagnosis and diagnostic methods

(pp. 139–151). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas

 

279

Chapter 23. Edwards, W. (1973). Divide and conquer: How to use likelihood

and value judgments in decision making. In R. F. Miles, Jr. (Ed.),

Systems concepts: Lectures on contemporary approaches to

systems (pp. 87–110). New York: Wiley 

 

287

Chapter 24. Thornbury, J. R., Fryback, D. G., & Edwards, W. (1975).

Likelihood ratios as a measure of the diagnostic usefulness

of excretory urogram information. Radiology, 114, 561–565

 

301

Chapter 25. Shanteau, J., Edwards, W., & Weiss, D. J. (written

for this volume). Diagnosis and treatment

 

308
IV Papers on Multiattribute Utility

 

 

Chapter 26. Gardiner, P.C., & Edwards, W. (1975). Public values:

Multiattribute utility measurement for social decision making.

In M. F. Kaplan & S. Schwartz (Eds.), Human judgment and decision

processes (pp. 1–37). New York: Academic Press

 

323

Chapter 27. Edwards, W. (1977). How to use multiattribute utility

measurement for social decisionmaking.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, 7, 326–340

 

343

Chapter 28A. Edwards, W. (1979). Multiattribute utility measurement:

Evaluating desegregation plans in a highly political context.

In R. Perloff (Ed.), Evaluator interventions: Pros and cons

(pp. 13–54). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage

 

364

Chapter 28B. Edwards, W. (1980). Reflections on and criticisms of a highly

political multiattribute utility analysis. In L. Cobb & R. M. Thrall

(Eds.), Mathematical frontiers of behavioral and policy

sciences (pp.157–186). Boulder, CO: Westview Press

 

383

Chapter 29. Stillwell, W. G., Barron, F. H., & Edwards, W. (1983).

Evaluating credit applications: A validation of multiattribute utility weight

elicitation techniques. Organizational Behavior & Human

Performance, 32, 87–108

 

395

Chapter 30. Edwards, W. & Barron, F. H. (1994). SMARTS and

SMARTER: Improved simple methods for multiattribute utility

measurement. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision

Processes, 60, 306–325

 

409

Chapter 31. Edwards, W., & Fasolo, B. (2001). Decision technology.

Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 581–606

 

422

Chapter 32. Weiss, J. W., Edwards, W., & Mouttapa, M.

(written for this volume). The puzzle of adolescent

substance initiation

 

439

Chapter 33. Weiss, J. W., Weiss, D. J., & Edwards, W.

(written for this volume). Big decisions, little decisions:

The hierarchy of everyday life

 

451

Chapter 34. Bauer, J., Spackman, S., & Edwards, W. (written for this

volume). The clinical decision tree of oral health in geriatrics

 

461

Chapter 35. Weiss, D. J., Edwards, W., & Weiss, J. W. (written for

this volume). Why is a bird in the hand worth two in the bush?

 

476
V Obituaries

 

 

Chapter 36. Dennis G. Fryback, Society for Medical Decision Making

Newsletter, Summer 2005

 

487

Chapter 37. Lawrence D. Phillips, European Association for Decision

Making Bulletin, Spring/Summer 2005

 

490

Chapter 38. David J. Weiss & James Shanteau, Society for

Judgment/Decision Making Newsletter, March 2005

 

495