Do government officials decide more rationally than the rest of us?
- Keywords:
- pleasure displeasure, rationality, judges, government officials, lawmakers, politics
- Abstract
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We investigated the relative weighting of rationality and pleasure in decisions by individuals from all three branches of government. Judges, government executives, and members of parliament rated their pleasure/displeasure after reading item-sentences describing political and social problems followed by different decisions (Questionnaire One). Questionnaire Two was a multiple-choice, grouping of items from Questionnaire One. All three participant groups maximized pleasure equally in their decision making.
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- 2010-09-01
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- Volume 38, 2010, Issue 8
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