Bad Moves: How Decision Making Goes Wrong, and the Ethics of Smart Drugs

by B.J. Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta

Book Overview

Making decisions is such a regular activity that it is mostly taken for granted. However, damage or abnormality in the areas of the brain involved in decision-making can severely affect personality and the ability to manage even simple tasks.

Here, Barbara Sahakian and Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta discuss the process of normal decision making - our strategies for making decisions, biases that affect us, and influential factors - and then describe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199668477
• ISBN13: 9780199668472
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"