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Resource-rational analysis versus resource-rational humans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Dobromir Rahnev Open the ORCID record for Dobromir Rahnev [Opens in a new window]
Dobromir Rahnev*
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School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA30332. rahnev@psych.gatech.eduwww.rahnevlab.gatech.edu
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Abstract

Lieder and Griffiths advocate for resource-rational analysis as a methodological device employed by the experimenter. However, at times this methodological device appears to morph into the substantive claim that humans are actually resource-rational. Such morphing is problematic; the methodological approach used by the experimenter and claims about the nature of human behavior ought to be kept completely separate.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e19
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