Kevin Tobia on the "reasonable person"

Kevin Tobia’s empirical work on the reasonable person standard is described in Aeon.

“[O]ur conception of what is reasonable is informed by thinking about both what people actually do and what people should do. Reasonableness is not a purely statistical notion, nor is it a purely prescriptive one; instead, it is a ‘hybrid.’ In this way, reasonableness is similar to other hybrid judgments, such as our judgment of what is ‘normal.’”

Kevin’s paper, “How People Judge What Is Reasonable,” can be downloaded here.