Although science has been an incredibly powerful and revolutionary force, it is not clear whether science is suited to performance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slowness. But if science is organized knowledge and acts as a...

Inhalt: 1 Grundsätzliche Überlegungen. 2 Arbeitsmodelle. 2.1 Das Modell "Doppelmandat". 2.2 Das Modell "Contracting aus dem Erwachsenen-Ich". 2.3 Das Modell "Widerstandstypologie" mit fünf Widerstandstypen. 2.4 Das Modell "50-Prozent-Regel". 3 Conclusio. 4 Literatur.

Recent research is exploring the case for cognitive or post-decision dissonance using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm (1956). Participants are repeatedly faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a time, and it is found that items not chosen...

Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In our study of climate change and emissions reductions, we took advantage of the...