{"product_id":"decisionscape-isbn-9780262048941","title":"Decisionscape","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow thinking like an artist can improve our decision making and provide the perspective necessary to make better choices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy are so many of our decisions regrettable, and what can we do about it? \u003ci\u003eDecisionscape \u003c\/i\u003emaps the surprising ways that our decisions are influenced and how thinking like an artist can help us deliberately arrange our perspective to make better choices. Introducing the concept of a “decisionscape,” Elspeth Kirkman blends art and science with insights from moral philosophy, sports, geopolitics, and elsewhere to explore decision making in a refreshingly original way. A broadly appealing and relatable book, \u003ci\u003eDecisionscape\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to confront the prejudices, blind spots, and hypocrisy in our day-to-day thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we make choices, Kirkman explains, we act like an artist arranging objects on a canvas, using our system of perspective to compose a mental representation of the world. This decisionscape includes a foreground and background, a frame, a fixed viewpoint, and outside influences. Organized into four parts that unpack a different facet of the book’s organizing principle, \u003ci\u003eDecisionscape\u003c\/i\u003e shows how psychological distance dictates what we prioritize and diminish, how the big picture can often look different from its parts, how culture and context frame decisions, and how personal worldviews alter how we interpret information. Complex, timely, and breezy, \u003ci\u003eDecisionscape\u003c\/i\u003e addresses one of the most fundamental human experiences: making better decisions to live our best life.“A new perspective on perspective—in the deepest and widest sense. Kirkman spans art to psychology, language to life, to bring together a fresh and unique view on how we see the world—and how to see it differently.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Halpern, President and Founding Director, Behavioural Insights Team; author of \u003ci\u003eInside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDecisionscape\u003c\/i\u003e offers a helpful, evidence-based analysis of the predictable ways the context we face can alter our choices. Kirkman is a leading thinker in applied behavioral science; taken together, the research and recommendations she presents have important implications for our everyday decisions and our most consequential choices.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Katherine L. Milkman, James G. Dinan Professor, The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania; Co-Director, Behavior Change for Good Initiative; author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eElspeth Kirkman is Chief Programme Officer at the innovation agency Nesta and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London’s Policy School and Exeter University’s Business School.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eWorking at the intersection of design, data, and experimentation, she is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eBehavioral Insights\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302483480805,"sku":"NP9780262048941","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262048941.jpg?v=1767724936","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/decisionscape-isbn-9780262048941","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}