Battered Women in AmericaDecision Ingredients

Individual decisions are based on

four basic ingredients:

• States of the world

• Perceived options (alternatives)

• Perceived consequences & their likelihoods

• Preferences/values

7a. Steinbacher & Kaufman, Bielefeld 1994

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• Historical attitudes

• Current attitudes

• None

• Most frequently, nothing

• Rarely, brief police visit

• Women as property

• Use power to control

• Must always prevail

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