To make fast and accurate behavioral choices, we need to integrate noisy sensory input, take prior knowledge into account, and adjust our decision criteria. It was shown previously that in two-alternative-forced-choice tasks, optimal decision making can be formalized in the framework of a sequential probability ratio test and is then equivalent to a diffusion model. However, this analogy hides ...

idealized deliberative democracy. It will involve agonistic contestation between dominant and subordinate groups (125); and genuine democratic solidarity will be achieved only insofar as contestation over public memory in debates over minority group rights reveals ‘‘the existence of a state organized on the basis of both cultural difference and racial hierarchy’’ (171–72). Hooker offers provoca...

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As outlined, recurring concerns have surfaced since the 1700s that economic growth may prove to be unsustainable. These concerns have been expressed again and have intensified in recent decades but their foundation differs from that of Malthus. The rapid economic growth of China and India have added to these worries. Recent discussions by economists of the desirability of achieving sustainable ...