Do Solipsismo Supremo à Deliberação Racional / From Supreme Solipsism to Rational Deliberation

Rational Actors , Political Argument , and Democratic Deliberation

Rational Judgement Revisited: Practices of Deliberation in Healthcare Funding Decisions

In this paper, we aim at exploring how rationality may become a practical accomplishment. We maintain that it is not known or adequately understood how organisational actors may actually produce ‘rational judgement’ in practice. We thus examined a context where actors seek to be purposefully rational when making healthcare funding decisions. Building on a focused ethnography of decision making ...

Averting economic collapse and the solipsism bias

We study the behavior of experimental subjects who have to make a sequence of risky investment decisions in the presence of network externalities. Subjects follow a simple heuristic—investing after positive experiences and reducing their propensity to invest after a failure. This result contrasts with the theoretical findings of Jeitschko and Taylor [Jeitschko, T.D., Taylor, C., 2001. Local dis...

Do Supreme Court Nominees Lie? The Politics of Adjudication

Intuition or deliberation - How do professionals make decisions in action?

Despite intense research on decision-making in action, we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs. intuitive decision-making in decision situations under complexity and uncertainty. This paper studies decision-making modes (deliberate vs. intuitive) in complex task environments contingent on perceived complexity, experience, and decision style preference. We find that...