Studies in Ecological Rationality [PDF]
, 2021 Ecological rationality represents an alternative to classic frameworks of rationality. Extending on Herbert Simon's concept of bounded rationality, it holds that cognitive processes, including simple heuristics, are not per se rational or irrational, but
Hertwig, Ralph +9 more
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GeSoN: A Geo-Social Network model applying bounded rationality to farmers in socio-ecological simulations [PDF]
, 2023 GeSoN: A Geo-Social Network model applying bounded rationality to farmers in socio-ecological ...
Paparella, Antonio +8 more
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Axiomatic and ecological rationality
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2016 One important purpose of rationality research is to help individuals improve. There are two main approaches to the task of rendering evaluations of rationality that support guidance: the axiomatic approach evaluates the coherence of behavior according ...
Patricia Rich
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The Rationality Dialogy Between Economics and Psychology
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2016 Economics and psychology take distinct approaches to predicting and formalizing human behavior. Economics focuses on the normative view of rationality, while psychology emphasizes the descriptive nature of rationality.
Jing Qian
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Integrating Ecology and Economics in Agent-Based Models to Support Agricultural Policy. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)Agent‐based models are valuable tools for studying social‐ecological systems in agriculture. This review maps how existing agent‐based models represent the human and natural domains of agriculture, and discusses developments in economic and ecological agent‐based modeling.
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Bridging the Gap between the Normative and the Descriptive: Bounded Epistemic Rationality [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex SystemsThe aim of the article is to propose bounded epistemic rationality as a concept that blurs the divide between normative and descriptive approaches to the study of rationality.
Nastja Tomat
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Cognitive Success: Instrumental Justifications of Normative Systems of Reasoning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 In the first part of the paper (sec. 1-4), I argue that Elqayam and Evan's (2011) distinction between normative and instrumental conceptions of cognitive rationality corresponds to deontological versus teleological accounts in meta-ethics. I suggest that
Gerhard eSchurz
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A marketing science perspective on recognition-based heuristics (and the fast-and-frugal paradigm) [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 Marketing science seeks to prescribe better marketing strategies (advertising, product development, pricing, etc.). To do so we rely on models of consumer decisions grounded in empirical observations.
John Hauser +3 more
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Two types of ecological rationality: or how to best combine psychology and economics [PDF]
, 2018 This paper argues that the notion of ‘ecological rationality’ as used in (behavioral) economics has two rival meanings. The first type of ecological rationality (ER1) as used by Gerd Gigerenzer, refers to the use of cognitive strategies, heuristics in ...
Blaž Remic +5 more
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Information Pluralism and Some Informative Modes of Ignorance
Information, 2011 In this paper information concepts will be roughly divided into two categories: The cybernetic and the semiotic-pragmatic. They are further divided into three and four subcategories, respectively. The cybernetic conception of information, which comprises
Erkki Patokorpi
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