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Crossing No Man's Land: Cooperation From the Trenches
Author(s) -
Bueno de Mesquita Bruce,
McDermott Rose
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
political psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.419
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-9221
pISSN - 0162-895X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00371.x
Subject(s) - bridge (graph theory) , common ground , rational choice theory (criminology) , psychology , social psychology , work (physics) , positive economics , sociology , epistemology , economics , criminology , medicine , mechanical engineering , philosophy , engineering
This paper represents an attempt to bridge the gap between rational and psychological models of choice, as represented by expected utility theory and prospect theory, and to show how researchers from different traditions can start to work together on problems of interest to both. A central issue for both models concerns the origin of preferences and how they might be predicted. Two questions of interest to all social scientists are related to the formation of preferences: What determines what people want, and what determines what people do once they know what they want? The incorporation of emotion into models of decision‐making may help users of divergent models find common ground for exploration and investigation.