pt. 1. Historical treatments of ignorance in philosophy, literature and the human sciences -- pt. 2. Registering the unknown : ignorance as methodology -- pt. 3. Valuing and managing the unknown in science, technology and medicine -- pt. 4. Power and ignorance : oppression, emancipation and...

"This volume offers a collection of contemporary sociological research on energy-society relations, highlighting the growing instability and disruptions associated with fossil-fuel-dependence, and the emerging challenges and innovations associated with a transition away from fossil fuels....

"Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on religion; domestic law and jurisprudence; sexuality and...

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...

In his classic article An Essay on Bargaining Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers. Option A...