Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to Part I -- Cognitive process models and explanations of decision making -- Psychometric and methodological aspects of process tracing research -- Introduction to Part II -- Personal involvement in human decision making: conceptualisations and effects on decision processes -- Aspects of compatibility and the construction of preference -- Perspectives and emotions in personal decision making -- Is hate wiser than love? Cognitive and emotional utilities in decision making -- Introduction to Part III -- Anticipating the future: appraising risk and uncertainty -- Theoretical conceptions of framing effects in risky decisions -- Beyond gambles and lotteries: naturalistic risky decisions -- Introduction to Part IV -- Influences of the past on choices of the future -- The effects of time pressure on human judgement and decision making -- Decision making in dynamic task environments -- Turning prior disadvantages into advantages: differentiation and consolidation in real-life decision making -- Post-decisional confidence -- can it be trusted? -- Index.