Deep Rationality: The Evolutionary Economics of Decision Making

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 peop...

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Main Authors: KENRICK, Douglas T., GRISKEVICIUS, Vladas, SUNDIE, Jill M., LI, Norman P., LI, Jessica Yexin, NEUBERG, Steven L.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
Subjects:
gender-differences
sex-differences
physical attractiveness
probabilistic rewards
parental investment
mate preferences
romantic motives
trade-offs
perspective
cognition
Personality and Social Contexts
Social Psychology
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/727
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1726/viewcontent/nihms101580.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1726/viewcontent/nihms101580.pdf

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