Deep Rationality: The Evolutionary Economics of Decision Making
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Deep Rationality: The Evolutionary Economics of Decision Making.
What is a "rational" decision? Economists traditionally viewed rationality as maximizing expected satisfaction. This view has been useful in modeling basic microeconomic concepts, but falls short in accounting for many everyday human decisions. It leaves unanswered why some things reliably make people more satisfied than others, and why people frequently act to make others happy at a cost to th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Cognition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0278-016X
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2009.27.5.764