Elements of Reason Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality |
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| Editor:
| Lupia, Arthur
McCubbins, Mathew D.
Popkin, Samuel L. |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-65329-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2000 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $89.00 |
Book Description:
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Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, scholars from across the social sciences use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social decision making. They answer tough questions...
More DescriptionMany social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, scholars from across the social sciences use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social decision making. They answer tough questions about how people see and process information and provide new explanations of how basic human needs, the environment, and past experiences combine to affect human choices.