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This chapter explores connections that there might be between relative deprivation theory in psychology, strategic deterrence theory, the economic theory of opportunity costs, and of the juridical theory of legal fiction. It describes the variety of uses of counterfactual reasoning in its broadest sense, whether they be discrete or, on the contrary, clearly demonstrated within the framework of subdisciplines. Embracing a vast body of work in the social sciences should help to measure their intensity and apprehend possible transfers of knowledge across disciplines. The chapter highlights the realm of the counterfactual and possible futures that poses in its own way the problem of disciplinary boundaries, especially the role of history within the milieu of the other human sciences. Psychologists and cognitive scientists study what they term “counterfactual thinking,” which they say is one form of reasoning among others. |
