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Error And Rationality In Individual Decisionmaking: An Essay On The Relationship Between Cognitive Illusion And The Management Of Choice, Robert E. Scott
Error And Rationality In Individual Decisionmaking: An Essay On The Relationship Between Cognitive Illusion And The Management Of Choice, Robert E. Scott
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How do individuals make choices? In recent years, economists, psychologists and legal academics have searched for answers to various aspects of this question. One topic of recent interest, for example, concerns a lingering problem in information theory: Does consumer inability to process "too much" information cause market failure? The normative implications of this question raise significant policy issues. If consumers' cognitive circuits can become overloaded, then information disclosure is less appealing than direct regulation as a solution to problems of market failure.
Child Sexual Abuse, Jeffrey A. Fagan
Child Sexual Abuse, Jeffrey A. Fagan
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Over the past two decades awareness of child sexual abuse among academics and professionals has grown from several convergent trends: the "discovery" of child abuse in the 1960's, concern by feminists over sexual assault and rape, increasing reports to law enforcement and child protective service workers of sexually abused children, and the general "deprivatization" of the family. More recently, general public awareness of child sexual abuse has followed well-publicized cases of child molestation in day-care centers, nationwide concern over pornography and its subsequent links to teenage prostitution, and runaway youth, delinquency, and family violence among adults.