A Critical Realist Perspective on Decisions Involving Risk and Uncertainty

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ID19347121
AuthorsRob Ranyard (0000-0003-4293-9510, University of Greater Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue1
Pages3-11
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolish Psychological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0079-2993 • E-ISSN: 1641-7844
PublisherPolish Academy of Sciences Chancellery (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2478/ppb-2014-0002
OpenAlexW1993506167
LanguageEN
References cited20

The relevance to decision research of recent advances in the philosophy of social science is considered. The critical realism of Roy Bhaskar argues for the identification of contextually contingent explanatory mechanisms at multiple levels based on concepts grounded in intersubjectively shared reality. Using examples from the author’s and other’s research on the psychology of decisions involving risk and uncertainty, this paper explores the implications of taking a critical realist approach. It is argued that critical realism has the potential to advance and unify disparate experimental and naturalistic lines of research. Furthermore, a diverse range of experimental, process-tracing and observational methods can play important complementary roles in developing fruitful critical realist explanations of decisions involving risk and uncertainty

Critical realism (philosophy of perception) · Epistemology · Naturalism · Perspective (graphical) · Realism · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Philosophy · Psychology

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