Responsibility and the ‘Pie Fallacy’

The “banzhaf Fallacy” Fallacy

Perceptions of Pie - Expanders and Pie - Slicers in Negotiations

Inspired by Kelley and Stahelski (1970), we examined selfand peer-evaluations of negotiator behavior and how they related to actual performance. People had more accurate perceptions of their pie-slicing skills than their pie-expanding skills. Pieexpanders tended to see others as more competitive in general than did pie-slicers. Meanwhile, pie-slicers out-performed pie-expanders. Further, those ...

Psychology and the Scientific Fallacy

Far more general than upon most subjects has been the agreement reached by competent thinkers that Science is essentially a method of investigation. Of course there have been, and there are today, a number of alternative investigatory methods olther than that of Science, just as there are entirely legitimate logics other than that of the syllogism. But Science today is by far the most publicize...

Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC.

The Risk-return Fallacy

We assume that in the world of business, higher risks are only taken when rewarded with higher expected returns. This supposition has been confirmed empirically using capital market data. However, accounting measures have yielded puzzling results: using the mean and variance of ROE as measures of return and risk, respectively, Bowman (1980) and other researchers find a negative relationship bet...