Tragedy on Mount Everest

Robyn Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1988). 

John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa, The Hidden Traps in Decision Making, Harvard Business Review, 76 (1998) pp. 47-58. 

Jonathan Evans, Bias in Human Reasoning Causes and Consequences, Essays in Cognitive Psychology (London Psychology Press, 1990). 

Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think (Boston Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007). This highly readable and informative book deals specifically with cognitive errors in medical decision making. 

Robin Hogarth, Judgment and Choice (New York John Wiley Sons, 1980). 

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