Intuitive Predictions and Professional Forecasts (International Series in Experimental Social Psychology)

by Professor Michael Argyle, Jurgen T Rehm, and Volker Gadenne

Professor Michael Argyle (Editor)

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This volume discusses new approaches for the integration of cognitive psychology and professional forecasting, conceptual clarification of intuition and its role in predictions and forecasts. The authors present empirical tests of the theoretical assumptions in the area of psychiatric prognosis, election predictions and energy consumption forecasts. The book goes beyond the individual perspective and deals with technological problems and the social consequences of predictions. The reader is given a vivid overview for judgemental forecasting with special emphasis on practical problems.
  • ISBN10 132246099X
  • ISBN13 9781322460994
  • Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 30 September 1990)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Elsevier Science
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 187
  • Language English