Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of RationalityArthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins, Samuel L. Popkin Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, scholars from across the social sciences use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social decision making. They answer tough questions about how people see and process information and provide new explanations of how basic human needs, the environment, and past experiences combine to affect human choices. |
Contents
EXTERNAL ELEMENTS OF REASON | 13 |
Ideologies and Institutions | 23 |
A Fixed Choice Theory of Political Reasoning | 67 |
How People Reason about Ethics | 85 |
Who Says What? Source Credibility as a Mediator | 108 |
The Role of Public Mood | 130 |
Cognition Heuristics | 153 |
Three Steps toward a Theory of Motivated | 183 |
Knowledge Trust and International Reasoning | 214 |
Psychological Constraints | 239 |
Backstage Cognition in Reason and Choice | 264 |
Choice Constraints | 287 |
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Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality Arthur Lupia,Mathew D. McCubbins,Samuel L. Popkin No preview available - 2000 |
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