This essay aims to promote discussion on fundamental reforms of the European Union (EU). Its thesis is that global turning point triggered by multiple crises affects entirety EU architecture and can therefore not be limited piecemeal in individual areas. Methodologically, takes an ideology-critical approach with what commonly referred as ?neoliberalism? at its centre. As a result, draws gains o...

The transformation of today’s mass media system leads to uncertainty about communication behaviors concerning scientific issues. So far, few researchers have investigated this issue among scientists. We conducted a survey of neuroscientists in Germany and the United States in which we asked them about their own information-seeking behaviors and their assessment of the influence of various types...

The availability heuristic is a strategy that people use to make quick decisions but often lead to systematic errors. We propose three ways that visualization could facilitate unbiased decisionmaking. First, visualizations can alter the way our memory stores the events for later recall, so as to improve users' long-term intuitions. Second, the known biases could lead to new visualization guidel...

class. The first one is sense which is called every time robot gets some new information. The second virtual function is decisionMaking which is called in a specific period of time to decide about new actions. The result of this function could be any of the actions such as walking, shooting, looking, etc. Some actions such as standing back to normal position in the case the robot falls down and...

We present a cognitively motivated model of moral decisionmaking, MoralDM, which models psychological findings about utilitarian and deontological modes of reasoning. Current theories of moral decision-making extend beyond pure utilitarian models by including contextual factors that vary culturally. Our model employs both first-principles reasoning and analogical reasoning to implement rules of...

One notable difference between early empirical legal scholarship and the more recent sophisticated contributions to the literature is scholars’ goal of identifying cause and effect relationships. Professors Cox and Miles’s recent study of judicial decisionmaking provides a terrific example of this new-generation work. The authors investigate whether personal attributes such as ideology, race, o...

What role(s) do emotions have in choice preference? Individuals’ choices depend on their memories and cognition but also on their current emotional state. Emotions can play a necessary functional role in decisionmaking, but in doing this, emotions can alter the stability of the process. The argument for a necessary functional role of emotions is supported by converging evidence from neuropsycho...

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the political and economic fault lines in exercise of power across multiple jurisdictions. This article focuses on First Nations to make enforceable decisions respect reserve lands, specifically powers have enforce public health restrictions during pandemic. We argue that Canadian law both enables assert decisionmaking their undermines Indigenous authority relati...