Resource-rational decision making
Autor: | Samuel J. Gershman, Lucy Lai, Rahul Bhui |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Cognitive science
Computer science Cognitive Neuroscience 05 social sciences Resource constraints Cognition Rational planning model 050105 experimental psychology Focus (linguistics) 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine Resource (project management) Irrational number Cognitive resource theory 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Set (psychology) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 41:15-21 |
ISSN: | 2352-1546 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.02.015 |
Popis: | Across many domains of decision making, people seem both rational and irrational. We review recent work that aims to reconcile these apparently contradictory views by modeling human decisions as optimal under a set of cognitive resource constraints. This ‘resource-rational’ analysis connects psychology and neuroscience to ideas from engineering, economics, and machine learning. Here, we focus on an information-theoretic formalization of cognitive resources, highlighting its implications for understanding three important and widespread phenomena: reference dependence, stochastic choice, and perseveration. While these phenomena have traditionally been viewed as irrational biases or errors, we suggest that they may arise from a rational solution to the problem of resource-limited decision making. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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