This paper reports on 2 studies that were conducted to develop and to evaluate a situational judgment test (SJT) for general aviation (GA) pilots. An initial 51-item test was constructed in which each item described an in-flight situation that required a decision on the part of the pilot and 4 alternative solutions to the situation. Subject matter experts were used to generate a scoring key fro...

in religious jurisprudence, exhaustive discussions have put forward about the effect of finding that the witness was disqualified at the time of giving of evidence and effect of losing of qualifications after giving of evidence and before rendering of judgment on the evidence that is got and the judgment that is rendered on basis of it and exist various opinions about some varieties in spite of...

Traditional theories of moral development emphasize the role of controlled cognition in mature moral judgment, while a more recent trend emphasizes intuitive and emotional processes. Here we test a dual-process theory synthesizing these perspectives. More specifically, our theory associates utilitarian moral judgment (approving of harmful actions that maximize good consequences) with controlled...

Beran et al. (2012) reported that capuchin monkeys closely matched the performance of humans in a quantity judgment test in which information was incomplete but a judgment still had to be made. In each test session, subjects first made quantity judgments between two known options. Then, they made choices where only one option was visible. Both humans and capuchin monkeys were guided by past out...

In response to recent work on the aggregation of individual judgments on logically connected propositions into collective judgments, it is often asked whether judgment aggregation is a special case of Arrowian preference aggregation. We argue the opposite. After proving a general impossibility result on judgment aggregation, we construct an embedding of preference aggregation into judgment aggr...

islamic azad university of maymeh, young and elite research club, maymeh, iran moon is considered a natural calendar for human individuals. proving the crescent sighting is among the issues that all human beings are somehow in need of. similarly, the islamic religious law has subjected some of the important devotional acts upon proving the crescent sighting. this very fundamental function of th...