Rationality and Social Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Robyn Mason Dawes

by Krueger; Joachim I.

• ISBN13: 9780805859966
• ISBN10: 0805859969
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-09
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This volume brings together a diverse group of authors who have been associated with Robyn Dawes over the years. The breadth of topics covered reflects Dawes's wide-ranging impact on psychological theory and empirical practice. The two themes of rationality and social responsibility are well developed in the book. Dawes had always urged investigators to take seriously the question of how individuals can reconcile self-interest (i.e. rationality) with the collective good (i.e. social responsibility). The area of judgment and decision-making poses a similar challenge: here, rational judgment is the most responsible judgment because it minimizes errors. To attain rationality in this domain, individuals need to accept the limitations of their own intuitions. This volume presents an up-to-date overview of how far psychological science has come in its struggle to reconcile what is true with what is good. Each chapter is a stimulus for new research and a reminder not to forget the hard-won lessons of the past in particular, those taught by Robyn Dawes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
A Psychologist between Logos and Ethos	p. 1
The Gambler's Fallacy and the Coin's Memory	p. 21
Being an Advocate for Linear Models of Judgment Is Not an Easy Life	p. 47
What Makes Improper Linear Models Tick?	p. 71
Why Meta-Science Should Be Irresistible to Decision Researchers	p. 91
The Robust Beauty of Simple Associations	p. 111
When It Is Rational for the Majority to Believe That They Are Better Than Average	p. 141
Wishful Thinking in Predicting World Cup Results	p. 175
How Expectations Affect Behavior	p. 187
Depersonalized Trust and Ingroup Cooperation	p. 215
Must Good Guys Finish Last?	p. 233
Women's Beliefs about Breast Cancer Risk Factors: A Mental Models Approach	p. 245
Groups and the Evolution of Good Stories and Good Choices	p. 275
The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making	p. 321
Behavior, Communication, and Assumptions about Other People's Behavior in a Commons Dilemma Situation	p. 345
Robyn M. Dawes's Festschrift Remarks	p. 363
Robyn M. Dawes's Biography and Selected Work	p. 365
Contributors	p. 371
Subject Index	p. 377
Author Index	p. 383
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