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A psychological point of view: Violations of rational rules as a diagnostic of mental processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 kahneman@princeton.edu www.princeton.edu/~psych/PsychSite/fac_Kahneman.html
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Abstract

The target article focuses exclusively on System 2 and on reasoning rationality: the ability to reach valid conclusions from available information, as in the Wason task. The decision-theoretic concept of coherence rationality requires beliefs to be consistent, even when they are assessed one at a time. Judgment heuristics belong to System 1, and help explain the incoherence of intuitive beliefs.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 2000 , pp. 681 - 683
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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