Kazuhisa Takemura

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Behavioral Decision Theory (eBook, PDF)

Psychological and Mathematical Descriptions of Human Choice Behavior

Beschreibung

This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings. In brief, behavioral decision theory is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to decision-making behavior. It is called a theory, but actually it is a combination of various psychological theories, for which no axiomatic systems, such as the utility theory widely used in economics, have been established; it is often limited to qualitative knowledge. However, as suggested in the studies of H. A. Simon, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978, and D. Kahneman, who won the prize in 2002, the psychological methodology and knowledge of behavioral decision theory have been applied widely in such fields as economics, business administration, and engineering, and are expected to become more useful in the future. This book explains various behavioral decision theories related to decision-making processes. Numerous models have been proposed to explain the psychological processes related to such a selection of decision strategies, and this book also introduces some new models that are useful to explain decision-making processes. The book concludes with speculation about the future of modern behavioral decision theories while referring to their relation to fields associated with neuroscience, such as neuroeconomics, that have been developed in recent years. In addition, each chapter includes a bibliography that can be referred to when studying more details related to behavioral decision theory. Reading this book requires no advanced expertise; nonetheless, an introductory knowledge of psychology, business administration, and economics, and approximately a high school graduate's level of mathematics should facilitate the reader's comprehension of the content.

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Kazuhisa Takemura is a Japanese psychologist and educator. Besides serving as a professor at the Department of Psychology, Waseda University, he is also the director of the University's Center for Decision Research, a professor at the Waseda MBA School, and a research fellow at the Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Department of Psychology, Doshisha University, in 1983 and 1985, and received his Ph.D. (System Science) from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994, and an additional Ph.D. (Medical Science) from Kitasato University in 2013. He has also worked abroad as a visiting researcher at James Cook University, La Trobe University, and Australian National University (Australia); the Tinbergen Institute (the Netherlands); Gothenburg University and Stockholm University (Sweden); the University of Konstanz (Germany); and National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan). He was also Fulbright Senior Researcher at the Department ofSocial and Decision Science, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) from 1999 to 2000, and a visiting professor at the Department of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2008, at Venice International University (Italy) in 2015. His main research area is human judgment and decision-making, especially the mathematical modeling of preferential judgment and choice. He received a Hayashi Award (Distinguished Scholar) from the Behavior metric Society (in 2002), an Excellent Paper Award from Japan Society of Kansei Engineering in 2003, Book Awards from the Japanese Society of Social Psychology (in 2010) and the Behaviormetric Society (in 2016), a Fellow Award from the International Association of Applied Psychology (in 2018), and Kimura Award, Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology (in 2021). In the course of his career, he has taught extensively on behavioral decision theory at many universities (Waseda University, Tokyo University, Osaka University, University of Tsukuba, Kobe University, Nagoya University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Gakushuin University, Rikkyo University, Tokyo International University, Kitasato University, Venice International University, St. Petersburg State University, and National Cheng Kung University).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Japan
• Seitenzahl: 207
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9784431545804
• Artikelnr.: 43797930

Rezensionen

"Kazuhisa Takemura's book touches all perspectives of the behavioral decision theory in terms of psychological and mathematical descriptions of human choice behavior. It certainly is worthy for every who would like to learn and research in this area ... . The book is excellent written in terms of presenting those psychological and mathematical concepts well to establish models and strategies for even many Nobel prize works." (Weiping Li, zbMATH 1509.91002, 2023)