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Informationen zum Autor Johnnie Johnson is Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis and Director of the Centre for Risk Research at the University of Southampton. Alistair Bruce is Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis at Nottingham University Business School. Zusammenfassung This book addresses a wide range of contemporary issues in decision research, such as how individuals deal with uncertainty and complexity, gender-based differences in decision-making, what determines decision performance and why people choose risky activities. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I Motivation for betting and risk taking 1 Towards an explanation of betting as a leisure pursuit 2 Costing excitement in leisure betting 3 Successful betting strategies: evidence from the UK off-course betting market PART II The impact of complexity on decision-making behaviour 4 The complex decision: insights from naturalistic research 5 An empirical study of the impact of complexity on participation in horse-race betting 6 A profit model for estimating the effect of complexity on risk taking 7 Risk strategy under task complexity: a multivariate analysis of behaviour in a naturalistic setting 8 Decision-making under risk: effect of complexity on performance PART III Gender differences in decision-making behaviour 9 Gender and DSS design: the research implications 10 Male and female betting behaviour – new perspectives 11 Gender-based differences in leisure behaviour: performance, risk taking and confidence in off-course betting 12 Decision-making, risk and gender: are managers different? PART IV The use of information by decision-makers and deviations from rational economic behaviour 13 A violation of dominance and the consumption value of gambling 14 Exploring decision-makers’ use of price information in a speculative market 15 Gluck’s Second Law: an empirical investigation of horse-race betting in early and late races 16 Investigating the roots of the favourite–longshot bias: an analysis of decision-making by supply- and demand-side agents in parallel betting markets 17 Market efficiency analysis requires a sensitivity to market characteristics: some observations on a recent study of betting market efficiency 18 Efficiency characteristics of a market for state-contingent claims 19 Market ecology and decision behaviour in state-contingent claims markets 20 Calibration of subjective probability judgements in a naturalistic setting...
