Valuations of human lives: normative expectations and psychological mechanisms of (ir)rationality

Stephan Dickert; Daniel Västfjäll; Janet Kleber; Paul Slovic

doi:10.1007/s11229-012-0137-4

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Valuations of human lives: normative expectations and psychological mechanisms of (ir)rationality

Synthese 189(S1): 95-105

Article 2012 English

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A central question for psychologists, economists, and philosophers is how human lives should be valued. Whereas egalitarian considerations give rise to mod

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