Does cooperating require the inhibition of selfish urges? Or does “rational” self-interest constrain cooperative impulses? I investigated the role of intuition and deliberation in cooperation by meta-analyzing 67 studies in which cognitiveprocessing manipulations were applied to economic cooperation games (total N = 17,647; no indication of publication bias using Egger’s test, Begg’s test, or p...

This paper discusses one aspect of the relationship that the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in business has with the use of ICT in government and administration. It argues that democracies rely on their ethical legitimacy and that framing e-Government and e-Democracy in commercial terms can jeopardise this legitimacy. For this purpose the paper distinguishes between e-Gov...

Why do some victims elicit outpourings of sympathy from those who are unaffected, while others do not? The authors propose a theoretical framework for making sense of the vicissitudes of sympathy based on the interaction between two qualitatively different mental processes. One, which the authors term “sympathy,” is caring but immature and irrational. The other process, which the authors term “...

Food democracy can be a tool to combat capitalist hegemony in the food system and increase citizen’s knowledge about alternatives obtaining from concentrated businesses. But for further democratic goals, it needs help create these as transformational spaces, seek genuine inclusion of underprivileged people governance, ensure that public forums deliberation are active respected by institutions.

Abstract This article provides a framework for understanding the economic role of central banks and their democratic legitimacy. I argue that thinking about challenges banking requires considering banks’ insurance how actions are part credit policy . The contract between bank sovereign is incomplete because it cannot integrate all unforeseen contingencies, distributive consequences interactions...

CORRECTION article Front. Robot. AI, 18 July 2023Sec. Human-Robot Interaction Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1251568

Traditional game theory usually relies on commonly known decision rationality meaning that choices are made in view of their consequences (the shadow of the future). Evolutionary game theory, however, denies any cognitive deliberation by assuming that choice behavior evolves due to its past success (the shadow of the past) as typical in evolutionary biology. Indirect evolution does not consider...