Bücher der Reihe Expertise: Research and Applications Series

This volume reports the findings of top naturalistic decision making (NDM) researchers, offering a historical perspective on the emergence of this paradigm. NDM describes the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or task and under various conditions.

Naturalistic decision making is an important area of research in applied psychology. This work investigates topics discussed during the 1998 Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, held in Virginia, USA.

This volume reports the findings of top naturalistic decision making (NDM) researchers, offering a historical perspective on the emergence of this paradigm. NDM describes the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or task and under various conditions.

Actors memorize hours' worth of verbal material in a very short time, and they retrieve it verbatim along with the accompanying gestures, movements, thoughts and emotions of the characters. This book studies and details the mental processes involved in this task.

Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. This work is a culmination of some of the studies.