Scientific Research Survey to Understand Influence

6-18-2018 Update

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Scientific Research Survey on Understanding Influence

A year ago, I announced my new effort to research, publish, educate, and update the legal system in the United States and, hopefully, around the world. The law still operates using a “rational agent” model, saying essentially that once you reach the age of majority, you make rational choices. However, in the past fifty years especially, there has been a huge amount of research to show that humans are rationalizing but are not rational. For example, the Nobel Prize in Behavioral Economics was awarded to psychologist Daniel Kahneman for his research summarized in his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. In it, he details how people use unconscious heuristics when they make most decisions. However, the research, which was so important for business and economics, has not been applied in a systematic way to the legal system. It does not yet have a measure to systematically calibrate the use of undue influence from an agent or group over an individual.