The thesis objective is to design an autonomous spacecraft architecture to perform both deliberative and reactive behaviors. The Autonomous Small Planet In-situ Reaction to Events (ASPIRE) project uses this architecture to integrate several autonomous technologies for a comet orbiter mission. This architecture uses the deliberative path for performing deliberative behaviors, and the three bypas...

When making decisions, people typically draw on two general modes of thought: intuition and reason. Age-related changes in cognition and emotion may impact these decision processes: Although older individuals experience declines in deliberative processes, they experience stability or improvement in their emotional processes. Recent research has shown that when older adults rely more on their in...

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...