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Mathematics and Cognition Seminar Spring 2009 Tuesdays 12:15 GWC 510 Seminar Schedule: <http://math.la.asu.edu/~tom/cognition/math+cogsched.html> Cookies and Coffee Starting at 12:00 Note the New Location! Map ("X" marks the spot) |
On Tuesday, April 21, at 12:15 in GWC 510, |
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"Intuitive Lawmaking" |
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Abstract Many legal rules require tradeoffs among competing parties who all have claims on finite resources. Using child support as an example, we examine the judgments people make about such tradeoffs when asked to decide for themselves on the appropriate dollar amount of a child support order in a series of cases with varying facts. We find that their judgments in these cases exhibit a pattern that Ariely has called "coherent arbitrariness". Moreover, we find that differences between respondents in their resolution of individual cases can be predicted from their relative ratings of 20 different statements about the appropriate goals of child support rules |