Shared Outrage and Erratic Awards: The Psychology of Punitive Damages

Kahneman, Schkade, & Sunstein. (1998). Shared Outrage and Erratic Awards: The Psychology of Punitive Damages: The Psychology of Punitive Damages. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1998

DOI

10.1023/a:1007710408413

Link

https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007710408413

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Domain-specific

• Scope Neglect
  • . Charitable giving / the identifiable-victim literature. Donations are flat, sometimes decreasing, in victim count when the appeal describes a group rather than one named individual — "psychophysical numbing." Risk perception and public-health communication. Risks of "thousands" versus "millions" elicit similar responses when the message centers a prototype victim; probability and magnitude are both neglected. Public-goods valuation and policy support. Support often fails to scale with stated reach: helping 100,000 draws support not much greater than helping 10,000, both keyed to the same prototype beneficiary. Jury awards. Punitive damages show outrage well-calibrated to blameworthiness but poorly to dollar magnitude (Kahneman, Schkade & Sunstein's "shared outrage, erratic awards")

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