How can anyone be rational in a world where knowledge is limited, time is pressing, and
deep thought is often an unattainable luxury? Traditional models of unbounded rationality …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of science's most pervasive and
flexible metaprinciples; optimality is used to explain utility maximization in economics, least …

In this response, we clarify several misunderstandings of the understanding/acceptance
principle and defend our specific operationalization of that principle. We reiterate the …

The phenomenon of base-rate neglect has elicited much debate. One arena of debate
concerns how people make judgments under conditions of uncertainty. Another more …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

There is a tension between normative and descriptive elements in the theory of rational
belief. This tension has been reflected in work in psychology and decision theory as well as …

According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality
and irrationality is fundamental to many aspects of human life including the law, mental …

Human reasoning is often conceived as an interplay between a more intuitive and deliberate
thought process. In the last 50 years, influential fast-and-slow dual-process models that …

Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are
regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …