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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2020

Can resources save rationality? "Anti-Bayesian" updating in cognition and perception.

Eric Mandelbaum, Isabel Won, Steven Gross, Chaz Firestone

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Animal affect, welfare and the Bayesian brain.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024
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  2. "Impossible" Somatosensation and the (Ir)rationality of Perception.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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Eric MandelbaumBaruch College, CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Philosophy, New York, NY10016emandelbaum@gc.cuny.eduhttp://ericmandelbaum.com.
Isabel WonDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD21218iwon1@jhu.educhaz@jhu.eduhttp://perception.jhu.edu.
Steven GrossDepartment of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD21218sgross11@jhu.eduhttps://sites.google.com/site/grosssteven/.
Chaz FirestoneDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD21218iwon1@jhu.educhaz@jhu.eduhttp://perception.jhu.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resource rationality may explain suboptimal patterns of reasoning; but what of "anti-Bayesian" effects where the mind updates in a direction opposite the one it should? We present two phenomena - belief polarization and the size-weight illusion - that are not obviously explained by performance- or resource-based constraints, nor by the authors' brief discussion of reference repulsion. Can resource rationality accommodate them?

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