Making Decisions for Other People: The Problem of Judging Acceptable Levels of Risk

People often make judgments about the risk preferences of others. Doctors do so for patients, lawyers for clients, finance managers for investors, parents for children, carers for dependants. How are these judgments made? How do they relate to people's judgments about their own risk preferences...

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Main Authors: Nigel Harvey, Matt Twyman, Clare Harries
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2006-01-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/66