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Analogy in decision-making, social interaction, and emergent rationality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Boicho Kokinov*
Affiliation:
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 1618Bulgariahttp://www.nbu.bg/cogs/personal/kokinov

Abstract:

Colman's reformulation of rational theory is challenged in two ways. Analogy-making is suggested as a possible candidate for an underlying and unifying cognitive mechanism of decision-making, one which can explain some of the paradoxes of rationality. A broader framework is proposed in which rationality is considered as an emerging property of analogy-based behavior.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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