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Normative Status (normative + status)
Selected AbstractsThe susceptibility of mental accounting principles to evaluation mode effectsJOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING, Issue 2 2009Subimal Chatterjee Abstract The present research shows that the predictions and outcomes of mental-accounting tests depend on whether preferences are measured separately (one at a time) or jointly (comparatively). Across five studies, we show that joint evaluation weakens some decision biases (the theater ticket problem, the calculator and jacket problem), but exacerbates others (the basketball game problem). Joint evaluations serve as a check on whether people think the answers they give in separate evaluations make sense or require adjustment. We discuss how the findings impact (1) tests of mental accounting predictions (between vs. within subjects designs), and (2) the normative status of mental accounting. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The all-too-flexible abductive method: ATOM's normative status,JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 9 2008Jan-Willem Romeijn Abstract The author discusses the abductive theory of method (ATOM) by Brian Haig from a philosophical perspective, connecting his theory with a number of issues and trends in contemporary philosophy of science. It is argued that as it stands, the methodology presented by Haig is too permissive. Both the use of analogical reasoning and the application of exploratory factor analysis leave us with too many candidate theories to choose from, and explanatory coherence cannot be expected to save the day. The author ends with some suggestions to remedy the permissiveness and lack of normative force in ATOM, deriving from the experimental practice within which psychological data are produced. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 64:1,14, 2008. [source] Born unto Brothels,Toward a Legal Ethnography of Sex Work in an Indian Red-Light AreaLAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 3 2008Prabha Kotiswaran The global sex panic around sex work and trafficking has fostered prostitution law reform worldwide. While the normative status of sex work remains deeply contested, abolitionists and sex work advocates alike display an unwavering faith in the power of criminal law; for abolitionists, strictly enforced criminal laws can eliminate sex markets, whereas for sex work advocates, decriminalization can empower sex workers. I problematize both narratives by delineating the political economy and legal ethnography of Sonagachi, one of India's largest red-light areas. I show how within Sonagachi there exist highly internally differentiated groups of stakeholders, including sex workers, who, variously endowed by a plural rule network,consisting of formal legal rules, informal social norms, and market structures,routinely enter into bargains in the shadow of the criminal law whose outcomes cannot be determined a priori. I highlight the complex relationship between criminal law and sex markets by analyzing the distributional effects of criminalizing customers on Sonagachi's sex industry. [source] NEW HORIZONS IN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY: FIDES ET RATIO AND THE CHANGED STATUS OF THOMISMTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2006HAROLD E. ERNSTArticle first published online: 21 DEC 200 The author considers Pope John Paul II's 1998 encyclical, Fides et ratio, as bringing into view new horizons for Catholic philosophical theology by virtue of its endorsement of a constrained philosophical pluralism. Through a retrospective examination of the history of magisterial interventions as depicted in the encyclical, the author notes how a progressive openness to philosophical pluralism relates to the changed status of Thomism within magisterial teaching on the practice of Catholic philosophical theology. Fides et ratio describes an evolution in magisterial emphasis from proscription to prescription, which corresponds to change in the status of Thomism from an absolute to an exemplary norm. Attention to this decisive shift in the normative status of Thomism, as implied within the encyclical itself, provides both new illumination on the Pope's general intentions and new clarity with regard to some contested interpretive issues. Finally, the author highlights several new challenges that are implied by this development in magisterial teaching. [source] The ,Earned Privilege' of Family Contact in Northern Ireland: Judicial Justification of Prisoners' Loss of Family LifeTHE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 5 2008ALICE DIVER Abstract: Our ,carceral society' often conspires to effect a continuum of punishments far beyond that needed to extinguish ,behaviour and bring about attitude change' in offenders (Hudson 1993, p.32). Recent jurisprudence on family life during incarceration has inverted the concept of the right, framing it as ,earned privilege' and linking it to subjective notions of good behaviour.1 This has created a sub-category of the right, also diminishing its normative status. In many of the judgments referred to, judicial concern for public opinion seems to sideline the need to promote family life. This applies equally to Northern Ireland jurisprudence and to the international case-law to which domestic judiciaries look for guidance. [source] | ||||||||||