We employed simple gambles to investigate information processing in relation to the compatibility effect. Subjects should be more likely to engage in a deliberative thinking strategy when completing a pricing task rather than a rating task. We used eye-tracking methodology to measure information acquisition and processing in order to test the above hypothesis as well as to show that losses and ...

Either seen as a “new spirit” (Blondiaux and Sintomer 2002) – following Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s “new spirit of capitalism” (Boltanski and Chiapello 1999) – or as a “new instrument” (Lascoumes and Le Galès 2004) of public action and public policy making, modern democracies are more and more resorting to public discussion and deliberation to accompany decision making processes. Legitima...