Klein Associates Inc. is the company founded by
Gary A. Klein
Gary Klein (born February 5, 1944, in New York City, New York, U.S.) is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of naturalistic decision making. By studying experts such as firefighters in their natural environment, he disc ...
to apply his research on decision-making in naturalistic settings. On September 2, 2005, Klein Associates was acquired by
Applied Research Associates, a New Mexico-based firm that develops engineering solutions for private and public sector clients. Klein remains associated with the firm as Chief Scientist.
Consulting in naturalistic decision making
Klein associates is known for developing and applying its own approach to cognitive
task analysis.
[Crandall, Beth; Klein, Gary; Hoffman, Robert R. (2006) ''Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press] Its approach is informed by the
recognition-primed decision
Recognition-primed decision (RPD) is a model of how people make quick, effective decision making, decisions when faced with complex situations. In this model, the decision maker is assumed to generate a possible course of action, compare it to th ...
model. This view of decision making in the real-world has led to developing models of several aspects of human cognition including: Problem Detection, Mental Simulation, Advanced Team Decision Making, and Dynamic Replanning.
Klein Associates is a participant in Team ISX to develop a knowledge engineering system for
Vulcan Ventures-funded
Project Halo
Vulcan LLC is a privately held company founded by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen in 1986 to establish and oversee the family's diverse business activities and philanthropic endeavors. It includes Vulcan Real Estate ...
.
Controversy
The Naturalistic Decision Making approach championed by Gary Klein and Klein Associates challenges the views of decision making taken by Nobelist
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...
, with other experts, like Roy Beach taking positions straddling Klein's and Kahneman's.
See also
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Decision making
In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. It could be either rati ...
References
External links
Official company web siteASK Talks with Dr. Gary Klein. NASA ''ASK'' Issue 20 undated*
ttp://www.apa.org/monitor/may99/split.html ''APA Monitor'' Decision researchers split, but prolific Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1999What's Your Intuition ? ''Fast Company'' August, 2000Bruce Bower, Reworking Intuition: Business simulations spark rapid workplace renovations ''Science Week'' Oct. 23, 2004; Vol. 166, No. 17 , p. 263* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D8143BF931A1575AC0A9619C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/B/Brown,%20Paul%20B Brown, Paul B. What's Offline: Analyzing Failure Beforehand ''New York Times'' September 22, 2007]
Publications
Management consulting firms of the United States
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