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Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality

By Mathew D. McCubbins , Arthur Lupia , Samuel L. Popkin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521653290, 9780521653299
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19846205 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
Edition
1
Pages
344\345
Time added
2016-11-02 01:13:32
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Description

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.

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