Symposium on ‘‘Cognition and Rationality: Part I’’ Relationships between rational decisions, human motives, and emotions

Abstract

Rational decision theory, Decision-making, Rationality, Emotions, Cognition,

Retracted: Intrinsic Preferences, Revealed Preferences and Bounded Rational Decisions

“…Starting with bounded rationalities caused by simplifications, memories, cognitive abilities and interactive decision making (Rubinstein, 1998), Rubinstein made some attempts to model decisions based on axiomatic hypothesis and gained some valuable achievements. Castelfranchi et al (2006) discussed relations among rational decisions, motivations and emotions combined with cognitive theory and proposed decision theory frameworks based on beliefs and values. Berg & Gigerenzer (2007) considered the problem of using a social-welfare function to decide whether to regulate risk-taking behavior in a population whose individual-level behavior may or may not be consistent with expected utility maximization.…”

Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

“…It seems to have no limits in its storing capacity and presents an associative structure (Newell and Simon 1972, p. 792). Castelfranchi et al (2006) thus refer to emotions as modifiers of knowledge accessibility. It leads to pattern recognition and expertise.…”

“…12 But see also Anderson et al (2004) who softens the seriality condition. 14 Unfortunately we cannot devote more space and time to emotions, though it seems likely that this issue shall become more and more relevant in fields such as multi-agent systems or virtual institutions (Castelfranchi and Falcone 2004;Castelfranchi et al 2006;Castelfranchi and Paglieri 2007). See Pfeifer (1982) for a computational model of emotions in cognition.…”

Understanding economic change: the impact of emotion

“…The diffidence toward emotions has, for the most part, been sustained by the fear that they constitute an obstacle to rationality. Such a prejudice has been very successful in keeping them excluded from economic discourse (Castelfranchi et al 2006;Hanoch 2002;Kaufman 1999).…”

“…8 Interestingly, such a role does not apply to actions only but also to the goals toward which actions are oriented. Emotions may in fact influence the motives that drive behavior in three ways: they can alter the hierarchy of goals by making a goal more urgent (as in the case of survival), they can bypass pre-existing intentions and desires by entering the mind of the subject as ''impulses'' that cannot be easily controlled, and feeling or not feeling an emotional state can be a goal per se (Castelfranchi et al 2006). 9 The mechanisms through which affect intervenes in the building of evaluations have been receiving growing attention by neuropsychologists.…”