Information Integration Theory: A Unified Cognitive Theory. Review of A Functional Theory of Cognition, by Norman H. Anderson

Abstract

Norman H. Anderson is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. He has degrees in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and degrees in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin. His work on Information Integration Theory has appeared in over 100 articles. He has also published previous five books on IIT: Foundations of Information Integration Theory (1981), Methods of Information Integration Theory (1982), and three volumes of Contributions to Information Integration Theory (all in 1991). The reviewers, Shawn Noble and James Shanteau, are with the Department of Psychology at Kansas State University. Noble received an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University, a Master's from Towson University, and is a Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University (KSU). He is presently a Consortium Fellow with the Army Research Institute Branch Office at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is conducting studies of military decision making. His research interests include qualitative decision aids and strategies for improving decision making. Shanteau is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research at KSU. He formerly served as Program Director of the Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program at the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Norman Anderson. He has published 50 articles, 5 books, 58 book chapters, 4 encyclopedia entries, and 14 technical reports primarily on expert decision making and the development of expertise.