Wellesley Girl: Emotion, Democracy, and the Contemporary Dystopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-296
Author(s):  
Abby Schroering
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Real World ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
The Real ◽  
Emotional Reasoning ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Abstract Brendan Pelsue’s Wellesley Girl, which premiered in the midst of the 2016 U. S. Presidential election, depicts American democracy – as an institution, a mythology, and a practice – as a fundamentally flawed utopian framework that is susceptible to dystopian failure. In this post-apocalyptic community in which every adult is a member of Congress, it becomes clear that American democracy was systematically designed to exclude emotional reasoning – with a few notable, destructive, exceptions – and it therefore enforces performances of reason that tend to exclude women and produce a cognitive dissonance between politics and reality. Wellesley Girl merges its audience’s present with a recognizable dystopian future and implicates them in the decision-making processes of that future in order to render visible the real world consequences of that dissonance – consequences which are already manifest in our collective ecological crisis.

scholarly journals Real-world decision making in the upstream oil and gas industry—prescriptions for improvement

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Steve I Mackie ◽  
Steve H Begg ◽  
Chris Smith ◽  
Matthew Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
Decision Outcomes ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Decision Making Model

Business under-performance in the upstream oil and gas industry, and the failure of many decisions to return anticipated results, has led to a growing interest in the past few years in understanding the impacts of decision-making processes and their relationship with decision outcomes. Improving oil and gas decision making is, thus, increasingly seen as reliant on an understanding of the processes of decision making in the real world. There has been significant work carried out within the discipline of cognitive psychology, observing how people actually make decisions; however, little is known as to whether these general observations apply to decision making in the upstream oil and gas industry. This paper is a step towards filling this gap by developing the theme of decision-making process. It documents a theoretical decision-making model and a real-world decision-making model that has been distilled from interviews with many Australian upstream oil and gas professionals. The context of discussion is to review the theoretical model (how people should make decisions) and the real-world model (how people do make decisions). By comparing and contrasting the two models we develop a prescriptive list of how to improve the quality of decisions in practice, specifically as it applies in the upstream oil and gas industry.

The Real World: Teaching Anthropology as if it Mattered

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Margaret Everett
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
American Anthropologist ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
The Future ◽  
Decision Making Processes

In James Peacock's 1995 address on the future of anthropology given at the AAA meetings in Washington, D.C., he spoke persuasively about the discipline's need to move "beyond the academy" and warned that in order for anthropology to flourish, "we must press outward" ("The Future of Anthropology," American Anthropologist 99(1): 9-29, 1997). Efforts to broaden anthropology's contribution to society "beyond the academy" are already under way, as Human Organization, this publication, and this column, in particular, attest. Specifically, renewed interest in public policy reflects the growing conviction that anthropologists' work today needs to be more relevant to decision-making. Applied anthropologists often express frustration at their lack of influence in decision-making processes. Again, as Peacock argues, "Applied anthropology is often a mop-up operation, identifying and solving problems caused by bad policy. Instead, anthropology must move to shaping policy." Efforts through the AAA, SfAA, and elsewhere suggest a turning point for applied anthropology and the discipline in general.

scholarly journals Feminist Judging in the 'Real World'

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1275-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Real World ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Tools And Techniques

The various feminist judgment projects (FJPs) have explored through the imagined rewriting of judgments a range of ways in which a feminist perspective may be applied to the practice of judging. But how do these imagined judgments compare to what actual feminist judges do? This article presents the results of the author’s empirical research to date on ‘real world’ feminist judging. Drawing on case study and interview data it explores the how, when and where of feminist judging, that is, the feminist resources, tools and techniques judges have drawn upon, the stages in the hearing and decision-making process at which these resources, tools and techniques have been deployed, and the areas of law in which they have been applied. The article goes on to consider observed and potential limits on feminist judicial practice, before drawing conclusions about the comparison between ‘real world’ feminist judging and the practices of FJPs. Los proyectos de sentencias feministas, a través de la reelaboración imaginaria de sentencias judiciales, han explorado multitud de vías en las que las perspectivas feministas se podrían aplicar a la práctica judicial. Pero ¿qué resulta de la comparación entre dichas sentencias y la práctica real de las juezas feministas? Este artículo presenta los resultados de la investigación empírica de la autora. Se analiza el cómo, el cuándo y el dónde de la labor judicial feminista, es decir, los recursos, herramientas y técnicas feministas que las juezas han utilizado, las fases de audiencia y toma de decisión en las que se han utilizado y las áreas del derecho en que se han aplicado. Además, se toman en consideración los límites observados y potenciales de la práctica judicial feminista, y se extraen conclusiones sobre la comparación entre la labor judicial feminista en el “mundo real” y la práctica de los proyectos de tribunales feministas.

Multidisciplinary Decision-Making: The “Real-World” Clinical Scenarios

2015 ◽  
pp. 247-315
Author(s):  
Leandro Chambrone ◽  
Luiz Armando Chambrone ◽  
Manuel De la Rosa-Garza ◽  
Marco Antonio Serna Gonzalez ◽  
Gerardo Guzman Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Clinical Scenarios

scholarly journals Real-World Evidence: Useful in the Real World of US Payer Decision Making? How? When? And What Studies?

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Malone ◽  
Mary Brown ◽  
Jason T. Hurwitz ◽  
Loretta Peters ◽  
Jennifer S. Graff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real World Evidence

Design Judgement: Decision-Making in the ‘Real’ World

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold G. Nelson ◽  
Erik Stolterman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals Design Three Trading Strategies Based on Overconfidence, Loss Aversion, and Herd Behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Tzuling Liu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Loss Aversion ◽  
Real World ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Trading Strategies ◽  
Behavioural Finance ◽  
The Real ◽  
Herd Behaviour

<p>There is a basic assumption in the field of economics, which is people are rational. It might be taught in the first class of the principle of economics. However, this assumption could hardly be applied to the real world since people can be affected easily sometimes, especially when they cope with their assets. Thus, with combination of psychology and academic finance, behavioural finance aims to understand the effects influencing investors’ decision-making. This paper will discuss some effects which can be commonly seen in the real world, overconfidence, loss aversion, and herd behaviour included.</p>

scholarly journals Relevansi Simulasi Permainan “Hikayat Kerbau Air” Sebagai Media Literasi Perdamaian Bagi Aktivis Aisyiyah

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Surwandono Surwandono ◽  
Ali Maksum
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Water Buffalo ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Simulation Game ◽  
Conflict Style ◽  
The Real ◽  
Game Simulation

This article examined the relevance of game simulation as a model for learning literacy for women activists in sosial and religious isues. Women was peace aktors who have a natural peace instinct compared to men, but in the context of sosial conflict, women's involvement in conflict and peace decision making tends to be minimum. The community services method was conducted by the intervention of knowledge and the value of peace by using the simulation game called “Hikayat Kerbau Air” or Water Buffalo. The “Hikayat Kerbau Air” was a game that mobilizes structured experiences that can provide deep scars so that it is expected to be a good stimulus when experiencing similar experiences in the real world. The results of the service interventions showed that the structured experience gained from the “Hikayat Kerbau Air” game simulation increased the emphatic process and sympathy for the competitors without losing the goals to be achieved. Conflict style choices become more moderate and humanist.

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