RATIONALITY: NORMAL MENTAL FUNCTIONING OR PSYCHOLOGICAL COHERENCE?

Coherence and Rationality in Grounding

This paper analyses dialogues where understanding and agreement are problematic. We argue that pragmatic theories can account for such dialogues only by models that combine linguistic principles of discourse coherence and cognitive models of practical rationality.

Color and Psychological Functioning

Color is a ubiquitous perceptual experience, yet little scientific information about the influence of color on affect, cognition, and behavior is available. Accordingly, we have developed a general model of color and psychological functioning, which we present in this article. We also describe a hypothesis derived from this model regarding the influence of red in achievement contexts. In additi...

Perfect or Bounded Rationality

The paper focuses on empirical studies of a class of very simple games of the reward allocation, dictator and ultimatum type. It is demonstrated that true explanations of social phenomena cannot conceivably be derived in terms of the perfect rationality concept underlying neo-classical economics. Analyzing the simple paradigm games it is explored in some depth, if speculatively, how experimenta...

Rationality of Belief Or :

Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency. As far as beliefs are concerned, rationality is equated with having a prior belief over a “Grand State Space”, describing all possible sources of uncertainties. We argue that this notion is too weak in some senses and too strong in others. It is too weak because it does not distinguish between rational and irrational be...

Neurobiological Bases for Psychological Functioning