In Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World, Keith E. Stanovich demonstrates how work in the cognitive psychology of decision making has implications for the large and theoretically contentious debates about the nature of human rationality. Written specifically for undergraduate psychology students, the book presents a very practical approach to decision making, which is too often perceived by students as an artificial set of skills used only in academia and not in the real world. Instead, Stanovich shows how good decision-making procedures support rational behavior that enables people to act most efficiently to fulfill their goals. He explains how the concept of rationality is understood in cognitive science in terms of good decision making and judgment.

Books in the Fundamentals of Cognition series serve as ideal instructional resources for advanced courses in cognitive psychology. They provide an up-to-date, well-organized survey of our current understanding of the major theories of cognitive psychology. The books are concise, which allows instructors to incorporate the latest original research and readings into their courses without overburdening their students. Focused without being too advanced--and comprehensive without being too broad--these books are the perfect resource for both students and instructors.

基思·斯坦诺维奇 （Keith E. Stanovich）

加拿大多伦多大学应用心理学和人类发展科学荣誉退休教授，也是加拿大应用认知科学的前研究主席。

他的研究领域是推理和阅读的心理学机制。他著有200多篇科学论文和7部书。在一项对于论文引用率的调查中，斯坦诺维奇位列引用率最高的50位发展心理学家之一，也是25位最高产的教育心理学家之一。丹尼尔·卡尼曼在其诺贝尔奖致辞中也多次引用斯坦诺维奇的研究成果。

斯坦诺维奇获奖无数。他于2012年荣获美国心理学会颁发的桑代克终身成就奖，也是唯一两次获得国际阅读协会颁发的阿尔伯特 J. 哈里斯奖的学者。

斯坦诺维奇著有畅销书《这才是心理学》（另名《对"伪心理学"说不》），该书被全球400多所高等教育机构采用。他还著有《超越智商：为什么聪明人也会做蠢事》《机器人叛乱：在达尔文时代找到意义》《决策与理性》和《理性与反省心智》等书。

译者简介

施俊琦

国家自然科学基金杰出青年基金获得者、广东省珠江学者特聘教授、中山大学岭南（大学）学院管理学教授。

北京大学心理学系博士毕业，长期从事组织行为学和决策领域的研究。