scholarly journals Majority Rule or Dictatorship? The Role of Collective-Choice Rules in Resolving Social Dilemmas with Endogenous Institutions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manwei Liu ◽  
Eline van der Heijden
Keyword(s):  
Majority Rule ◽  
Social Dilemmas ◽  
Collective Choice ◽  
Endogenous Institutions

Collective decisions divert regret and responsibility away from the individual

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa El Zein ◽  
Bahador Bahrami
Keyword(s):  
Majority Rule ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Collective Choice ◽  
Group Decisions ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
Protective Shield ◽  
The Individual

It has recently been proposed that a key motivation for joining group decisions is to be protected from negative consequences of these decisions. To test this claim we investigated how experienced outcomes that trigger loss and regret impacted people’s tendency to make decisions alone or in a group, and how these decisions differed when voluntarily made alone vs in group. Replicated across two experiments, participants (N=125 and N=451) first selected whether to play alone or in a group with majority rule. Next, they chose between two lotteries with different probabilities and magnitudes of winning and losing. Experienced outcomes affected participants’ propensity to join a group: the higher the negative outcome, the more participants switched from deciding alone to with others. When choosing the lottery collectively (vs alone), choices were less driven by anticipation of loss and regret. Moreover, negative outcomes led to worse subsequent choices but only when outcome was experienced alone. Together, these results confirm the protective role of group decisions against blame and responsibility and reveal an alarming consequence of group decisions: when collective choice leads to unpalatable outcomes, the protective shield of the collective reduces the influence of negative emotions that could have helped individuals re-evaluate their past choice and possibly avoid repeating their mistakes.

scholarly journals The Role Of Pedagogy In The Promotion Of National And Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (12) ◽  
pp. 253-260
Author(s):  
Nurboeva Habiba Botirovna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
Principal Part ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Instructional Method ◽  
Advanced Education ◽  
National Examinations

Cultural and national examinations appears to have passed into the shadows of scholarly interests, supplanted by globalization and political economy as the new thousand years' special worries among left scholastics. However, social and public examinations' longstanding interest in the interrelationship of intensity, legislative issues, and culture remains basically significant. Matters of organization, awareness, instructional method, and way of talking are fundamental to any open talk about legislative issues, also schooling itself. Henceforth, this article contends that the guarantee of social examinations, particularly as a principal part of advanced education, dwells in a bigger groundbreaking and majority rule legislative issues in which matters of teaching method and office assume a focal job.

POSITIVELY RESPONSIVE COLLECTIVE CHOICE RULES AND MAJORITY RULE: A GENERALIZATION OF MAY'S THEOREM TO MANY ALTERNATIVES

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1489-1504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Horan ◽  
Martin J. Osborne ◽  
M. Remzi Sanver
Keyword(s):  
Majority Rule ◽  
Collective Choice
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