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Principles of the Analytic Hierarchy Process

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Expert Judgment and Expert Systems

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Abstract

Cognitive psychologists have classified thinking into two types. This division has gone by many names. Aristotle referred to it as active versus passive reason [35]; Freud [10] as secondary versus primary process thinking; and Hobbes [14] as thought with or without “designe.” More recently the division has been referred to as directed versus autistic thinking [4] and operant versus respondent thought [16]. The terms Varendinck [33] uses for the division may be most familiar to the layman. He noted the classification as one between conscious and foreconscious or affective thought. Adopting this familiar terminology, conscious thought appears to differ from affective thought in that it is directed, checked against feedback, evaluated in terms of its effectiveness in advancing specific goals, and protected from drift by deliberately controlled attention by the thinker [16].

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  1. Department of Public Administration, Rockefeller College, State University of New York, 12222, Albany, NY, USA

    Jeryl L. Mumpower (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  2. Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610, USA

    Ortwin Renn (Associate Professor of Environment Technology, and Society) (Associate Professor of Environment Technology, and Society)

  3. Decision Analysis Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St., WC2A 2AE, UK

    Lawrence D. Phillips (Director) (Director)

  4. Mathematics and Statistics, Research Department, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA

    V. R. R. Uppuluri (Director) (Director)

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Saaty, T.L. (1987). Principles of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In: Mumpower, J.L., Renn, O., Phillips, L.D., Uppuluri, V.R.R. (eds) Expert Judgment and Expert Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86679-1_3

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