This paper tackles the problem of the demarcation of value judgments in economic expertise. Is it possible to disentangle values from facts, or neutral scientific assertions from value-laden judgments, in the context of economic expertise? If not, why not? And if it is, under what conditions? First, drawing on concepts from analytic philosophy, the paper highlights the interdependencies between...

The main purpose of this article is to show how the belief-function framework can be used to model human behavior when making decisions that involve value judgments. A rule of decision making has been presented in the form of a proposition. This proposition is simple and intuitive. It predicts correctly the observed behavior, even the behavior that is considered to be irrational under the expec...

The belief that individuals have a "true self" plays an important role in many areas of psychology as well as everyday life. The present studies demonstrate that people have a general tendency to conclude that the true self is fundamentally good--that is, that deep inside every individual, there is something motivating him or her to behave in ways that are virtuous. Study 1 finds that observers...

Commentary V alue judgments lurk beneath the surface in any study of health inequalities; analysts ought to understand them, make them explicit, and present results transparently to poli-cymakers so that they, rather than analysts, decide which set of value judgments should be invoked. that is the key message of the paper " Lies, Damned Lies, and Health Inequality measurements " 1 Kjellsson et ...

People often feel that information that was forgotten is less important than remembered information. Prior work has shown that participants assign higher importance to remembered information while undervaluing forgotten information. The current study examined two possible accounts of this finding. In three experiments, participants studied lists of words in which each word was randomly assigned...