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American Enterprise Institute

American International Group (AIG)

American Psychiatric Association, homosexuality and

Americans-in-London problem

Amygdala(fig.)

Anxiety

Arrow, Ken

Arthur Andersen

Assets

Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards Group (NASA)

Asteroid explosions, risk of

At War with the Weather (Kunreuther and Michel-Kerjan)

Attention deficit disorder

Awareness, behavioral change and

Bali Action Plan (2007)

Bargaining games. See also Game Theory; Theory of Games; Ultimatum Games

Batson, Daniel

Bayes, Thomas

Bayes’ Rule

Bayesian updating

Behavior

acceptable

awareness and

collective

Behavior (continued)

decision making and

descriptive models of

individual

learned

managerial

market

motivating

myopic

neuroscience and

rational

social

uncertainty/risk and

Behavioral biases

Behavioral data, linking(fig.)

Behavioral explanations

Behavioral research

Behavioral science

Beliefs

Benefits

concentrated

extreme

sharing

uncertain

Bhopal disaster

Black Death

Blair, Tony

Bonds

catastrophe

municipal

Bowman, Edward

Brain

emotional/rational parts of

Brain activity

unfair offers and(fig.)

Brain sciences. See also Neuroscience

Bubble-has-burst hypothesis

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Camus, Albert

Cancer risks(table)

Cap-and-trade programs

Capital

intermediary

shortage

Carbon dioxide, reduction of

Carson, Rachel

Catastrophe bonds (cat bonds)

Catastrophe management

Catastrophes

accelerating rhythm of

environmental

facing

financial

government intervention and

human behavior in

large-scale

learning from

losses from

memories of

political responses to

potential for

risks from

weather-related

Change

policy

predicting

See also Climate change

Chemical accidents, reducing losses from

Chevalier, Michel

Choice

alternative

ambiguity and(fig.)

constructed

function

intertemporal

making

mistaken

models of

outcomes of

parameter

political

process, improving

pros/cons of

sensitive

strategic

wise

See also Rational choice

Cleveland, Grover

Climate change

challenge of

characteristics of

coal industry and

as compound lottery

evaluation/management of

hazard risk and

impact of

legitimate policies of

mitigation of

outcomes of

path for

policy

premiums and

Climate negotiations

Climate risks

Club of Rome

Coates, John

“Coconut” uncertainty

Cognitive activity

emotional activity and

Cohen, Jonathan

Collaboration

Collateral debt obligations (CDOs)

Commitment

prediction and

uncertainty and

Communication

development of

theory

Compassion

collapse of(fig.)

Conference of Rio on Environment and Development

Consequences

actions and

decision making and

Conservatism, environmental issues and

Consumption

social welfare and

Contracts

insurance

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)

Coolidge, Calvin

Copenhagen Agreed Outcome

Copenhagen Consensus (2004)

Cost-of-search hypothesis

Costs

diffuse

Credit default swaps (CDS)

Credit instruments

Crises

Crisis management

Dacy, Douglas

Damasio, Antonio

Darfur genocide

Debreu, Gérard

Decision analysis (DA)

adaptation by

challenges for

disappointments with

principles of

training in

Decision analytical model(fig.)

Decision Education Foundation (DEF)

model(fig.)

Decision making

accountability and

affective

Decision making (continued)

behavioral

collaborative

communication and

consequences and

developments in

effective

failures in

improving

insurance and

legitimation and

mental models and

perspectives on

power of

probability and

psychology of

rational

roles in

science/practice of

social goals and

studying

tools for

Decision processes

measuring

Decision sciences

natural disasters and

policy makers and

Decision theory

Decision Theory Group (Microsoft Research)

Decision trees

Decisions

economic

emotions and

flexible versus rigid

future-choice

meta-

quality of(fig.)

rationality and

“strong-emotion”

suboptimal

Deductibles

Department of Homeland Security

Descartes’ Error (Damasio)