There is now significant policy and academic interest in the governance of science and technology for sustainable development. In recent years this has come to include a growing emphasis on issues of public understanding of science and innovative processes of deliberative and inclusive policy-making around controversial technologies such as nuclear power and agricultural biotechnology. Concern ...

Cognitive architectures (e.g., ACT-R) have not traditionally been used to understand intuitive decisionmaking; instead, models tend to be designed with the intuitions of their modelers already hardcoded in the decision process. This is due in part to a fuzzy boundary between automatic and deliberative processes within the architecture. We argue that instance-based learning satisfies the conditi...

Within democratic theory, rational choice theories have for some time been challenged by approaches of ‘deliberative democracy’. I argue that the central analytical contrast between these theories consists in their differing focus on preferences: while rational choice takes them to be stable for the time frame in question and exogenous to the decision process to be analysed, deliberative theory...

Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions, and neuroscience research has shown that deliberative brain processes are necessary for socialdecision making. We study how commonly-experienced adverse sleep states, which can harm deliberative processes, impact outcomes in classic simple bargaining games. We experimentally manipulated and objectively measured slee...

Desertification is a complex process, characterised not only by a damaged ecology, but also by conflict over access to scarce resources and trade-offs between the needs of multiple stakeholders at multiple scales. As such, orthodox approaches to environmental assessment in drylands, which rely solely on ecological expertise, are gradually losing legitimacy and greater attention is being given t...

The aim of this experiment was to analyse the consequences of changing attitudes related to doping through thoughtful versus non-thoughtful processes. Participants were young soccer players. They received a persuasive message either against or in favour of the legalisation of several doping behaviours in soccer (e.g., the use of anabolic androgenic steroid - AAS), and participants' level of ela...

The ideal of deliberative democracy now makes an appearance in almost every forum of discussion about government. Perhaps it is the alliteration that accounts for the success, perhaps the vague note of profundity that the idea strikes. Or perhaps the reason is that encoded in the notion of deliberative democracy is a very important value that none of the other formulae of government appraisal n...

Background There is a vast body of literature on deliberative, participative, or engaged democracy. In the area of health care there is a rapidly expanding literature on deliberative democracy as embodied in various notions of public engagement, shared decision-making (SDM), patient-centered care, and patient/care provider autonomy over the past few decades. It is useful to review such literatu...

In the present paper a system for generation of topological maps is going to be presented. This system is considered as one of the deliberative skills of the mobile robots architecture named AD. AD is a two level architecture: deliberative and automatic. Those skills which require high computational time as consequence of high level reasoning are found in the deliberative level, while the autom...

The present study focuses on deliberative potential of computer-mediated discussion forums and it approaches this question by linking the course of on-line discussion with its opinion dynamics. It is suggested that the process of opinion transformation, which is central to the theories of deliberative democracy, should be seen as a function of discussion in which it takes place. Computermediate...