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Can Chat Group Therapy Suggest a Paradigm for Axiomatized Collective Decision Process

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  • Hervé Raynaud

    (Sigmund Freud Universität)

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Multicriterion or multiagent decision needs a clear identification of the alternatives and of the criteria or of the agents but needs above all a method providing a sensible synthesis of the data. One can earn such a method using a set of noncontroversial principles—the axioms—that a limited number of methods, perhaps limited to one, can simultaneously satisfy. Examples of everyday life situations show that, if these axiomatic systems are not completed, the synthesis function of the data that might result can easily produce dangerous, ridiculous or merely absurd decisions! Some of the most classical axiomatic systems, built on such common sense principles, but not completed, may prove to be dangerous: they can explain a taste for crazy political orientations, for neurotic disorders, for masochistic choices! Even if no perfect and universal method can pretend to exist, a more widespread knowledge of the outcomes of the simultaneous satisfaction of the most common axioms would allow much wiser group (and individual) decision-making. As an example, the second part of the paper discusses the improvement by Lamboray and Tideman of Arrow-Raynaud ’s prudence axiomatic system.

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  • Hervé Raynaud, 2015. "Can Chat Group Therapy Suggest a Paradigm for Axiomatized Collective Decision Process," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 567-575, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:grdene:v:24:y:2015:i:4:d:10.1007_s10726-014-9404-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s10726-014-9404-8
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