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Howard Margolis
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 28
Citations - 1714
Howard Margolis is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rationality & Selfishness. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 28 publications receiving 1706 citations.
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Selfishness, altruism, and rationality
TL;DR: In this paper, Howard Margolis suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves.
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Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality: A Theory of Social Choice
TL;DR: In this article, Howard Margolis suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves.
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Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment
TL;DR: In this paper, Howard Margolis argues that risk assessment typically involves weighing a broad range of often complicated trade-offs between costs and benefits, and that lay intuition is concerned about a wide range of further concerns such as fairness and voluntariness of exposure.
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Dealing with risk : why the public and the experts disagree on environmental issues
TL;DR: The authors studied the role of intuition, mental habits, and cognitive frameworks in the construction of public opinion, and proposed a new approach to the psychology of persuasion and belief to bridge the public policy impasse over controversial environmental issues.