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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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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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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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Ecological Basis for Rational Phage Therapy [PDF]
Acta Naturae, 2010 Understanding the mutual interactions of bacterial and phage populations in the environment of a human or animal body is essential in any attempt to influence these complex processes, particularly for rational phage therapy. Current knowledge on the impact of naturally occurring bacteriophages on the populations of their host bacteria, and their role ...
Letarov, A. +2 more
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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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SUBSTANTIVE RATIONALITY IN COMMUNAL ECOVILLAGE MANAGEMENT [PDF]
RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas, 2022 We approach elements of substantive rationality in administrative practice, in productive organizations, through attributes of communal management in agricultural production activities and care for natural and human life in ecovillages.
Guilherme Smaniotto Tres +1 more
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Ecologically Rational Agency [PDF]
, 2010 The concept of dual rationality in human agents is well understood. It is significant in the work of the economist and Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek. In psychology Sigmund Freud described 'dual information processing'. More recently in cognitive science Daniel Levine has extensively studied the dual mechanisms in the human brain that handle these two ...
Debenham, John, Sierra, Carles
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The recognition heuristic: A decade of research
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 The recognition heuristic exploits the basic psychological capacity for recognition in order to make inferences about unknown quantities in the world.
Gerd Gigerenzer +4 more
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Recognising the recognition heuristic for what it is (and what it’s not) [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 The diversity, ingenuity and differences of opinion displayed in the articles of the recent special issues on the recognition heuristic are testament to the power and theoretical fertility of a simple idea about the role of recognition in decision making.
Ben R. Newell +3 more
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