Goal-based Decision Making: An Interpersonal Model

by Stephen Slade and Slade

Book Overview

This work presents a goal-based model of decision making in which the relative priorities of goals drive the decision process -- a psychological alternative to traditional decision analysis. Building on the work of Schank and Abelson, the author uses goals as the basis for a model of interpersonal relations which permits decisions to incorporate personal and adopted goals in a uniform manner. The theory is modelled on the VOTE computer program which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805813667
• ISBN13: 9780805813661
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"