This paper draws on research in social and cognitive psychology to show how theories of judgment and decision making that incorporate decision makers' affective responses apply to legal contexts. It takes 2 widely used models of decision making, the rational actor and lens models, and illustrates their utility for understanding legal judgments by using them to interpret research findings on jur...

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Shared decision-making (SDM) between physician and patient is an idea founded in ethics and the law and in some evidence of superior health outcomes. SDM is the practical reconciliation of respect for persons (autonomy) and the monopoly and power of physicians: a middle ground between “nanny-knows-best” paternalism and rampant consumerism. SDM includes the notion of a medical encounter as a “me...

The present work analyzes the cognitive process that led Clausius towards the translation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics into mathematical expressions. We show that Clausius’ original formal expression of the Second Law was achieved by making extensive use of the concept of disgregation, a quantity which has subsequently disappeared from the thermodynamic language. Our analysis demonstrate...

the acts of the state in administrative law, according the criterion of the method, are divided into act of authority and act of management. this division is used in the different areas of administrative law such as the determination of the competent judge, the rules of civil liability of the state, etc... in the system of administrative law of iran, the criterion of the act of authority is use...