Classic behavioral decision research has intensively explored deliberate processes in decision making. Accordingly, individuals are viewed as bounded rational actors who, because of cognitive limitations, use simple heuristics that are successful in certain environments. In this chapter, it is...

Eine zentrale Aufgabe des Rechts besteht darin, das Zusammenleben in der Gesellschaft durch formale Regeln zu gewährleisten und diese gegebenenfalls an veränderte Anforderungen der Umwelt anzupassen. Dazu offnen sich Rechtswissenschaft und -praxis verstarkt gegenüber Befunden aus...

Die Rechnungslegung deutscher Gebietskörperschaften gibt ein äußerst heterogenes Bild ab. Zugleich erfordern die auf europäischer Ebene diskutierten Reformen ein neues Bewusstsein über die notwendigen Spezifika der (deutschen) öffentlichen Rechnungslegung. Losgelöst vom bestehenden...

In two experiments we studied the effects of behavioral models on routine deviation decisions in observers. Participants repeatedly chose among four card-deck lotteries together with a human model (confederate, Exp. 1) or a non-human model (computer, Exp. 2) that made correct decisions in the...

There is an ongoing debate whether frequency judgments are based on mental magnitudes reflecting prior on-line recording of frequencies or on recall content available at the time of judgment. We conducted four experiments to demonstrate that task characteristics can determine which kind of...

Recent studies on attitude formation found that affect-based attitudinal judgments reflect the cumulative combination of prior experiences even if people are not able to explicitly remember the information. The present experiment was conducted to investigate whether people are able to monitor...

In a study on penalty decisions in soccer, one hundred-fifteen participants who were either referees or players made decisions as referees for each of 20 videotaped scenes from an actual match. In three scenes, potential fouls were committed by defenders in their penalty areas. The first two...