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Preference purification and the inner rational agent: a critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics Open
Neoclassical economics assumes that individuals have stable and context-independent preferences, and uses preference-satisfaction as a normative criterion. By calling this assumption into question, behavioural findings cause fundamental pr…
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Introduction to Computational Social Choice Open
Social choice theory is the field of scientific inquiry that studies the aggregation of individual preferences toward a collective choice. For example, social choice theorists— who hail from a range of different disciplines, including math…
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On the Foundations of Decision Theory Open
Bayesian decision theory was invented by Leonard Savage, who is on record as saying that it would be “preposterous” and “utterly ridiculous” to apply his theory except in a small world. But modern Bayesians proceed as though Savage’s theor…
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Risk Aversion and the Long Run Open
This article argues that Lara Buchak's risk-weighted expected utility (REU) theory fails to offer a true alternative to expected utility theory. Under commonly held assumptions about dynamic choice and the framing of decision problems, rat…
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Rational Choice and Situational Crime Prevention: Theoretical Foundations Open
Contents: Introduction: Towards a theory of situational crime prevention, Graeme Newman Rational choice and the legal model of the criminal, Marcel Alexander Niggli Limited rationality and crime, Karl-Dieter Opp Reconsidering the role of o…
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Rational Choice Theory: Toward a Psychological, Social, and Material Contextualization of Human Choice Behavior Open
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the rational choice approach, followed by an identification of several of the major criticisms of RCT and its conceptual and empirical limitations. It goes on to present a fe…
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Revisiting the criticisms of rational choice theories Open
Theories of rational choice are arguably the most prominent approaches to human behaviour in the social and behavioral sciences. At the same time, they have faced persistent criticism. In this paper, I revisit some of the core criticisms t…
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The behavioral model and game theory Open
The rational choice theory is based on this idea that people rationally pursue goals for increasing their personal interests. Here, we present a new concept of rational choice as a hyper-rational choice in which the actor thinks about prof…
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SOCIOLOGICAL RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY Open
Although rational choice theory has made considerable advances in other social sciences, its progress in sociology has been limited. Some sociologists' reservations about rational choice arise from a misunderstanding of the theory. The fir…
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Strategy selection as rational metareasoning Open
Many contemporary accounts of human reasoning assume that the mind is equipped with multiple heuristics that could be deployed to perform a given task. This raises the question how the mind determines when to use which heuristic. To answer…
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Reclaiming Rational Theory Choice as Central: A Critique of Methodological Applications of Critical Realism Open
My central claim is that texts introducing and explaining critical realism focus on its ontological insights, and even though issues of judgemental rationality and theory choice are central to research these often become peripheral and/or …
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Lessons From Creating a Business School for Public Good: Obliquity, Waysetting, and Wayfinding in Substantively Rational Change Open
This paper applies Weber’s distinction between instrumental (outcome focused) and substantive (values driven) rationality to offer both a conceptually-underpinned explanation for the mounting criticism of business schools, and to provide t…
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Social Inequality in Dropout from Higher Education in Germany. Towards Combining the Student Integration Model and Rational Choice Theory Open
Students from a lower socioeconomic background have a higher risk of dropping out of higher education. The underlying mechanisms of this association between socioeconomic background and higher education dropout are not well understood. Pre…
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Secularization Vindicated Open
In the 1960s, it was taken for granted that modernization eroded religion. In the 1980s, this consensus was challenged by the rational choice, supply-side, or market model proposed by Rodney Stark and associates. In particular, they argued…
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Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together Open
In this paper, we explore different possible explanations for research misconduct (especially falsification and fabrication), and investigate whether they are compatible. We suggest that to explain research misconduct, we should pay attent…
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Choices, risks and rational conformity: extending Boudon’s positional theory to understand higher education choices in contemporary China Open
This study extends Boudon’s positional theory to understand how students from different social origins make choices about university and how they interpret risks during the choice-making process in contemporary China. I draw upon empirical…
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Negotiating informal elder care, migration and exclusion: the case of a Turkish immigrant community in Belgium Open
In this article, we analyse the role exclusion plays in three theories explaining the provision of informal care for the elderly: norms and roles (sociological institutionalism), the availability and accessibility of formal care (rational …
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Mapping potentials and challenges of choice modelling for social science research Open
This paper argues that choice modelling is a useful approach for all social sciences, while at the same time disciplines such as sociology and political science can contribute significantly to the future development of choice modelling. So…
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Rational Laziness - When Time Is Limited, Supply Abundant, and Decisions Have to Be Made Open
This paper expands the model of rational action by introducing a new concept. rational laziness, to better understand actors’ decision making. In addition to rational information processing, human beings often rely on automatic and lion-co…
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Victims rational decision: A theoretical and empirical explanation of dark figures in crime statistics Open
A victim’s decision to report the incidence of crime to the police is a significant determinant in the fight against dark figures in official crime data. When victims decline to disclose crimes to the police, the criminal justice system’s …
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The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice Open
Belief systems play a crucial role when it comes to guiding human information processing, evaluation, judgement, behavior, and social coordination. But why do individuals and groups adopt the specific ideologies they do? And is it possible…
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Rational choice theory and demand for petty corruption Open
This article studies corruption as a rational choice phenomenon. Unlike the widespread game-theory approach to explaining corrupt behaviour, this article attempts to describe corruption as continuous utility-maximizing problem. It comes up…
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Review of Behavioural Theories in Security Compliance and Research Challenge Open
Aim/Purpose: Inconsistent findings on the effect of various determinants of cyber security behaviour emphasise the need for further understanding of the applicability of compliance theories. The paper provides a critical review of determin…
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Considering Rationality of Realist International Relations Theories Open
The article refers to debates inside realism on rationality of international processes. It reveals that even a basic assumption of states calculating their interests and choosing optimal political strategies provoked contradictions among r…
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PARTISIPASI POLITIK DALAM KONSEPSI TEORI PILIHAN RASIONAL JAMES S COLEMAN Open
Social action is an important aspect in analyzing behavior, including in analyzing the political participation of individuals and society. Diverse forms of political participation indicate that individuals make choices of political partici…
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: ADAM SMITH’S THEORY OF SENTIMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS Open
For Adam Smith, a crime is not the result of a rational calculation of loss and gain but the consequence of envy and a vain desire to parade wealth to attract the approbation of others, combined with a natural systematic bias in overestima…
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Behavioral Economics in Education Market Design: A Forward-Looking Review Open
The rational choice framework for modeling matching markets has been tremendously useful in guiding the design of school-assignment systems. Despite this success, a large body of work documents deviations from the predictions of this frame…
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Artificial Intelligence and Economic Theories Open
The advent of artificial intelligence has changed many disciplines such as engineering, social science and economics. Artificial intelligence is a computational technique which is inspired by natural intelligence such as the swarming of bi…
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From Theories of Human Behavior to Rules of Rational Choice: Tracing a Normative Turn at the Cowles Commission, 1943-1954 Open
This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation, interpretation, and use of rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. This turn is p…
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The 'Neo-Parish': Willow Creek's Middle Ground between Small Groups and Mega Worship Open
Rational choice theory and its religious market model dominate sociological literature on megachurches. Common portrayals describe how these large congregations use corporate marketing techniques to sell religious consumers myriad products…