Psychology Dictionary of ArgumentsHome
| |||
|
| |||
| Author | Concept | Summary/Quotes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Behavioral Economics on Comparisons - Dictionary of Arguments
Parisi I 109 Comparisons/tort law/Behavioral economics/Wilkinson-Ryan: The difficulty in the context of tort damages, and even perhaps in lawmaking more generally, is that we are generally not given a long list of wrongful acts and asked to think about how to punish lots of different harms. Rather, juries are presented with a particular harm and asked how to punish that wrongdoer. The natural answer to the question “Compared to what?” will be other kinds of wrongs and harms within the same category. For example, how bad is this trespass compared to other trespasses? Rarely will a juror’s natural thought be to ask, how bad is this trespass compared to child abuse? Or, how bad is this trespass compared to smoking marijuana? Sunstein et al. (2002)(1) demonstrated this in an experiment, showing how assignments of punitive damages changed drastically when subjects viewed them in isolation or had a comparison harm from a different category. >Liability/Experimental psychology, >Judgments/experimental psychology. 1. Sunstein, Cass R., Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade, and Ilana Ritov (2002). “Predictably Incoherent Judgments.” Stanford Law Review 54: 1153–1215. Wilkinson-Ryan, Tess. „Experimental Psychology and the Law“. In: Parisi, Francesco (ed) (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics. Vol 1: Methodology and Concepts. NY: Oxford University Press_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Behavioral Economics Parisi I Francesco Parisi (Ed) The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics: Volume 1: Methodology and Concepts New York 2017 |
||
> Counter arguments against Behavioral Economics
> Counter arguments in relation to Comparisons
