Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation

Stefaan Blancke

doi:10.1080/09515089.2023.2169602

Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation

Stefaan Blancke

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	990-1010
Number of pages	21
Journal	Philosophical Psychology
Volume	36
Issue number	5
Early online date	25 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2169602
Publication status	Published - 4 Jul 2023

Keywords

Evolution
Rationality
cooperation
Cultural Epidemiology
Interactionist Theory of Reasoning
Reputation
Socially Adaptive Belief

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Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation

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