Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation
Blancke,Stefaan
Blancke,Stefaan
Abstract
To secure cooperative opportunities people align their beliefs with the normative expectations of their social environment. These expectations are continuously managed by interactive reasoning, a process that results in dynamical pools of reasons. When people are more concerned about their social standing and reputation than truth, pools of reasons give rise to collective irrationalities. They determine what people should believe if they want to be known as a reliable group member. This account has implications for our understanding of human irrationality and how to deal with it.
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Funding Information: The author would like to thank Christophe Heintz, Marianna Bergamischi Ganapini, and an anonymous reviewer for the constructive and helpful comments. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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2023-07-04
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Evolution, Rationality, cooperation, Cultural Epidemiology, Interactionist Theory of Reasoning, Reputation, Socially Adaptive Belief
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Blancke, S 2023, 'Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation', Philosophical Psychology, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 990-1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2169602