Rasmussen's legacy and the long arm of rational choice

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• 作者：Sidney W.A. Dekker ^{s.dekker@griffith.edu.au}
• 关键词：Rasmussen ; Rational choice ; Human error ; Second victim ; Incidents
• 刊名：Applied Ergonomics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：59
• 期：part_PB
• 页码：554-557
• 全文大小：219 K
• 卷排序：59

文摘

Rational choice theory says that operators and others make decisions by systematically and consciously weighing all possible outcomes along all relevant criteria. This paper first traces the long historical arm of rational choice thinking in the West to Judeo-Christian thinking, Calvin and Weber. It then presents a case study that illustrates the consequences of the ethic of rational choice and individual responsibility. It subsequently examines and contextualizes Rasmussen's legacy of pushing back against the long historical arm of rational choice, showing that bad outcomes are not the result of human immoral choice, but the product of normal interactions between people and systems. If we don't understand why people did what they did, Rasmussen suggested, it is not because people behaved inexplicably, but because we took the wrong perspective.