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Want to know more about diagnostic expertise? This is the book for you! It is a taken-for-granted but little understood concept. Diagnosis comprises a special set of skills that enables experts to judge a situation based on their past experience and training. Wiggins and Loveday draw together theoretical perspectives with a broad range of practical applications in one comprehensive book. The editors are to be congratulated for providing a one-stop-shop for diagnostic expertise in organisations. This is a must read book for what is an intriguing area that is ripe for research and application. Neville A. Stanton, University of Southampton, UK This is a well-structured book. Early chapters on the cognitive mechanisms involved in decision-making provide the theoretical background for chapters that deal with diagnosis in specific organisational contexts, such as medicine, aviation, crime detection, fire-fighting, and finance. This integrated structure, combined with an easy writing style and frequent references to recent empirical findings and training applications, will make this book an excellent resource for students, practitioners, and researchers. Gerard J. Fogarty, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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Mark Wiggins is Professor of Organisational Psychology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He graduated with a PhD in Psychology in 2001 from the University of Otago and his research interests lie in understanding, assessing, and improving operators' capacity to interpret and respond to changes in complex systems. He has published in both academic and industry journals, and has acted as an advisor to the United States Federal Aviation Administration, the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, TransGrid, Powerlink, and Parsons Brinckerhoff. Thomas Loveday is a Registered Psychologist in New South Wales and a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society. He is currently employed as a post-doctoral researcher within the Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training (CEPET) at Macquarie University and as a Human Factors Specialist at the Clinical Excellence Commission, NSW Health. Thomas has a number of publications investigating the relationship between expertise, decision-making, and interface cues in high-risk, high reliability industries like power distribution, anaesthesia, and aviation. He was recently one of the recipients of a research grant from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. He has also consulted on interface design evaluations for the banking industry, next-generation air-traffic control systems, and rail-control interfaces.

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