Rawlsian maximin rule operates as a common cognitive anchor in distributive justice and risky decisions.

ABSTRACT: Distributive justice concerns the moral principles by which we seek to allocate resources fairly among diverse members of a society. Although the concept of fair allocation is one of the fundamental building blocks for societies, there is no clear consensus on how to achieve "socially just" allocations. Here, we examine neurocognitive commonalities of distributive judgments and risky decisions. We explore the hypothesis that people's allocation decisions for others are closely related to economic decisions for oneself at behavioral, cognitive, and neural levels, via a concern about the minimum, worst-off position. In a series of experiments using attention-monitoring and brain-imaging techniques, we investigated this "maximin" concern (maximizing the minimum possible payoff) via responses

SUBMITTER: Kameda T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5081577 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature