No Right to Be Wrong: What Americans Think about Civil-Military Relations

Is It Right to Be Wrong About the Future?

Personal predictions are often optimistically biased. This simple observation has troubling implications for psychologists, economists, and decision theorists concerned with rationality and the accuracy of self-knowledge (Armor & Taylor, 2002; Krizan & Windschitl, 2007; Sweeny, Carroll, & Shepperd, 2006). However, normative conclusions about the impropriety of optimistic bias rest on an unteste...

Critical Study of Right to be wrong From the point of view ofcollectivists, utilitarians, and virtuosos

circuit right discourse is one of the most common theories in the contemporary period about regulating human social relations. The formation of this course of thought and the exhibition of a unidimensional understanding of the concept of right in the West is the result of socio-political changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was during this period that thinkers’ response to th...

Right and wrong reasons to be screened.

How would you feel if you found out that your 85-yearold mother (or grandmother, if you prefer) had just undergone a pelvic examination to obtain a routine Pap smear? Perhaps you’d be pleased, believing she was being provided the best possible preventive care for cervical cancer. Maybe you’d be reassured, seeing it as evidence that her doctor still cares about her. Perhaps you’d be angry, viewi...

Prescribed optimism: is it right to be wrong about the future?

What ’ s Right , What ’ s WRong , and What ’ s Fixable

ExEcutivE compEnsation has suddEnly bEcomE a high-profile topic about which almost everyone has an opinion. Many shareholders, workers, and politicians believe that the entire system is broken and requires a substantial overhaul. The purpose of this piece is to take a hard look at the facts and assess whether the situation is as bad as some people fear. It also proposes the “Incentive Account” ...