Guidance Rules and Rational Decision Making

In: Social science quarterly, Band 66, Heft 4, S. 755-769

Abstract

Rules used to render decisions provide an unusually attractive research site. They allow empirical study of such global questions as how rational, active people & institutions are governed by forces they do not understand or control. Ultrarational, moderate rational, moderate nonrational, & ultranonrational positions are explored. Most rules seem to be quite nonrational, but most of the research on various kinds of rules, & systematic differences among those who apply them, has yet to be carried out. 37 References. HA