[lbo-talk] Americans sorta like torture if it works

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 23 12:09:26 PDT 2009


Aren't these kind of responses normal for all questions? Most people will not say "x is ALWAYS bad."

--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> [WS:] That is hardly surprising - this kind of responses
> were observed in other areas that involve risk assessment,
> and they depend on the cognitive framing of the problems in
> terms of "gains" or "losses."  Check out Kahneman &
> Tversky's work in behavioral economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory.
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> Wojtek
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