Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure
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Studies in Ecological Rationality.
Published in Topics in cognitive science
Ecological rationality represents an alternative to classic frameworks of rationality. Extending on Herbert Simon's concept of bounded rationality, it holds that cognitive processes, including simple heuristics, are not per se rational or irrational, but that their success rests on their degree of fit to relevant environmental structures. The key i...
How Category Selection Impacts Inference Reliability: Inheritance Inference From an Ecological Perspective.
Published in Cognitive science
This article presents results from a simulation-based study of inheritance inference, that is, inference from the typicality of a property among a "base" class to its typicality among a subclass of the class. The study aims to ascertain which kinds of inheritance inferences are reliable, with attention to the dependence of their reliability upon th...
Which cognitive individual differences predict good Bayesian reasoning? Concurrent comparisons of underlying abilities
Published in Memory & Cognition
We know a lot about how to present Bayesian reasoning tasks in order to aid performance, but less about underlying individual differences that can account for interindividual variability on the same tasks. Such information would be useful for both theoretical and practical reasons. Two theoretical positions, ecological rationality and nested set vi...
Les normativités du principe d'intégration. Contribution à l'étude du droit fluide de l'environnement
De nombreuses études ont mis en évidence, depuis les années 1990, les aspects opérationnels de la « protection intégrée de l’environnement », de manière globale ou sectorielle, au niveau national ou européen. Mais le rôle du principe d’intégration reste en lui-même incertain, laissant ouvertes les interrogations quant à son rayonnement normatif. L’...
Individually irrational pruning is essential for ecological rationality in a social context.
Published in Cognitive psychology
Heuristics, commonly thought to violate the full rationality assumptions, are paradoxically indispensable parts of our decision-making and learning processes. To resolve this seemingly paradox, there have been several studies in the literature that aim at finding some broad daily life conditions and situations where employing heuristics are rationa...
Global-Local Incompatibility: The Misperception of Reliability in Judgment Regarding Global Variables.
Published in Cognitive science
A number of important decision domains, including decisions about hiring, global warming, and weather hazards, are characterized by a global-local incompatibility. These domains involve variables that cannot be observed by a single decision maker (DM) and require the integration of observations from locally available information cues. This paper pr...
Familiarity-Matching: An Ecologically Rational Heuristic for the Relationships-Comparison Task.
Published in Cognitive science
Previous studies have shown that people often use heuristics in making inferences and that subjective memory experiences, such as recognition or familiarity of objects, can be valid cues for inferences. So far, many researchers have used the binary choice task in which two objects are presented as alternatives (e.g., "Which city has the larger popu...
Improving judgment accuracy by sequential adjustment
Published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Judging an object’s value based on relevant cues can be challenging. We propose a simple method to improve judgment accuracy: Instead of estimating a value after seeing all available cues simultaneously, individuals view cues sequentially, one after another, making and adjusting their estimate at each step. The sequential procedure may alleviate co...
Naturalism, tractability and the adaptive toolbox
Published in Synthese
Many compelling examples have recently been provided in which people can achieve impressive epistemic success, e.g. draw highly accurate inferences, by using simple heuristics and very little information. This is possible by taking advantage of the features of the environment. The examples suggest an easy and appealing naturalization of rationality...
