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A summer seminar in 1952 brought together economists, mathematicians, psychologists, and a few representatives of other fields, all concerned with some aspect of choice behavior. Each participant communicated the ideas in his field which he regarded as likely to benefit the others, and some of them were stimulated by the interchange to start new research. The 19 heterogeneous papers comprising Decision Processes were prepared during the subsequent year. The book makes evident the difficulties in this area and discourages any expectation of early pay-off for the psychologist. This volume seems more a memorandum among the participants than a presentation for other readers. These reports do not represent substantial, consolidated advances, as all concerned recognize. There is much use of the single-case experiment, or of the tentative mathematical formulation involving assumptions unsatisfactory to the author. The papers are difficult to read, as mathematics and as English. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)