The authors examined the effects of locomotor experience on infants' perceptual judgments in a potentially risky situation--descending steep and shallow slopes--while manipulating social incentives to determine where perceptual judgments are most malleable. Twelve-month-old experienced crawlers and novice walkers were tested on an adjustable sloping walkway as their mothers encouraged and disco...

set a price for what the regulation produces. In the case of environmental regulation, we need to &now what the value to society of additional pollution reduction will be before we can set the stringency of the standard. the case of health and safety regulations, we need to know what is the value of preventing additional risks to and health. Although one can sidestep these issues in part by on ...

What determines people’s moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people’s normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods to investigate people’s moral judgments empirically, and explored whether we could influence subsequen...

In this paper, I investigate the relationship between preference and judgment aggregation, using the notion of ranking judgment introduced inList andPettit (Synthese 140(1–2):207–235, 2004). Ranking judgments were introduced in order to state the logical connections between the impossibility theorem of aggregating sets of judgments proved in List and Pettit (Economics and Philosophy 18:89–110, ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to compare the clinical judgments of a reference panel of emergency medicine academic physicians against evidence-based likelihood ratios (LRs) regarding the diagnostic value of selected clinical and paraclinical findings in the context of a script concordance test (SCT). FINDINGS A SCT with six scenarios and five questions per scenario was developed. Subsequently, 15 emer...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the role social work professional evidence in mental capacity law, specifically Court Protection proceedings. authors analyse how workers perform as givers domain and a profession perceived alongside other professions within context adult care decision-making law. Design/methodology/approach This draws on textual from judgments existing empirical...

Recent research has begun to elucidate the neural basis of higher order social concepts, such as the mechanisms involved in intergroup relations, and moral judgments. Most theories have concentrated on higher order emotions, such as guilt, shame, or empathy, as core mechanisms. Accordingly, psychopharmacological and neurobiological studies have investigated the effects of manipulating serotonin...