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Vying for Rhetorical High Ground in Accountability Debates: It Is Easy to Look Down on Those Who Look Soft on
In: Administration & society, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 693-703
ISSN: 1552-3039
Vying for Rhetorical High Ground in Accountability Debates: It Is Easy to Look Down on Those Who Look Soft on
In: Administration & society, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 693-704
ISSN: 0095-3997
SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUTEXPERT POLITICAL JUDGMENT:REPLY TO THE SYMPOSIUM
In: Critical review: a journal of politics and society, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 467-488
ISSN: 1933-8007
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - And How to Know When Not to Trust Them
In: The national interest, Heft 110, S. 76-86
ISSN: 0884-9382
Experts All the Way Down Given the breakneck pace of contemporary life, it is not surprising that so many rely on experts to make judgments for them. Still, we should be wary of guru opinions, whether they be about the effects of global warming, racism in the workplace or the merits of deficit spend...
In: The national interest, Heft 110, S. 76-87
ISSN: 0884-9382
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
In: The national interest, Heft 110, S. 76-86
ISSN: 0884-9382
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
In: The national interest, Heft 110, S. 76-86
ISSN: 0884-9382
Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred. By Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 366p. $30.00
In: American political science review, Band 94, Heft 3, S. 753-754
ISSN: 1537-5943
Cognitive Biases and Organizational Correctives: Do Both Disease and Cure Depend on the Politics of the Beholder?
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 293-326
ISSN: 1930-3815
The study reported here assessed the impact of managers' philosophies of human nature on their reactions to influential academic claims and counter-claims of when human judgment is likely to stray from rational-actor standards and of how organizations can correct these biases. Managers evaluated scenarios that depicted decision-making processes at micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis: alleged cognitive biases of individuals, strategies of structuring and coping with accountability relationships between supervisors and employees, and strategies that corporate entities use to cope with accountability demands from the broader society. Political ideology and cognitive style emerged as consistent predictors of the value spins that managers placed on decisions at all three levels of analysis. Specifically, conservative managers with strong preferences for cognitive closure were most likely (a) to defend simple heuristic-driven errors such as overattribution and overconfidence and to warn of the mirror-image mistakes of failing to hold people accountable and of diluting sound policies with irrelevant side-objectives; (b) to be skeptical of complex strategies of structuring or coping with accountability and to praise those who lay down clear rules and take decisive stands; (c) to prefer simple philosophies of corporate governance (the shareholder over stakeholder model) and to endorse organizational norms such as hierarchical filtering that reduce cognitive overload on top management by short-circuiting unnecessary argumentation. Intuitive theories of good judgment apparently cut across levels of analysis and are deeply grounded in personal epistemologies and political ideologies.
ARTICLES - Cognitive Biases and Organizational Correctives: Do Both Disease and Cure Depend on the Politics of the Beholder?
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 293-326
ISSN: 0001-8392
Theory-Driven Reasoning About Plausible Pasts and Probable Futures in World Politics: Are We Prisoners of Our Preconceptions?
In: American journal of political science, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 335
ISSN: 1540-5907
Theory-Driven Reasoning about Possible Pasts and Probable Futures in World Politics: Are We Prisoners of our Preconceptions
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 335-366
ISSN: 0092-5853