TY - BOOK ID - 3068970 TI - Uncertainty and Risk : Mental, Formal, Experimental Representations AU - Abdellaoui, Mohammed. AU - Luce, R. Duncan. AU - Machina, Mark J. AU - Munier, Bertrand. PY - 2007 VL - 41 SN - 1281065889 9786611065881 3540489355 3540489347 3642080294 9783540489344 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Uncertainty. KW - Risk-taking (Psychology) KW - Decision making. KW - Operations research. KW - Game theory. KW - Economic theory. KW - Economics. KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. KW - Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. KW - Operation Research/Decision Theory. KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Games, Theory of KW - Theory of games KW - Mathematical models KW - Mathematics KW - Operational analysis KW - Operational research KW - Industrial engineering KW - Management science KW - Research KW - System theory KW - Decision making KW - Risk behavior KW - Risky behavior KW - Taking risks KW - Human behavior KW - Reasoning KW - Mathematics. KW - Operations Research/Decision Theory. KW - Math KW - Science KW - Uncertainty UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3068970 AB - We all feel that our world is fundamentally uncertain. But less unanimity emerges as to what we mean by "uncertainty" and how we ought to adjust. Businessmen tend to be "cautious" and engineers to pick up the "right" decision criteria among the many available in the literature, without having much justification about their respective behaviors. This book tries to sort out the different meanings of uncertainty and to discover their foundations. It shows that uncertainty can be represented using various tools and mental guidelines. Some decision criteria are then related to each case and assessed. Alternative ways to deal with risk - and risk attitude concepts - are then examined in the above perspective. Behavior under uncertainty emerges from this book as something to base more on inquiry and reflection than on mere intuition. ER -