@article{ref1,
title="Selective Fatalism",
journal="Journal of legal studies (Chicago)",
year="1998",
author="Sunstein, Cass R.",
volume="27",
number="S2",
pages="799-823",
abstract="Abstract Human beings are selectively fatalistic. Some risks appear as &quot;background noise,&quot; whereas other, quantitatively identical risks cause enormous concern. This essay explores the reasons for selective fatalism and possible legal responses. Sometimes selective fatalism is a product of distributional issues, as people focus especially on risks that face particular groups; sometimes people adapt their preferences and beliefs so as to reduce concern with risks that they perceive themselves unable to control. Sometimes selective fatalism is a product of heuristics and biases. Finally, selective fatalism can be a product of diverse judgments of value and of unreliable social influences on risk perceptions. Selective fatalism might be overcome by an emphasis, as a regulatory starting point, on how many &quot;decently livable life‐years&quot; might be saved by regulation.<p />",
language="",
issn="0047-2530",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}