Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation
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2023-01-23
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
To secure cooperative opportunities people align their
beliefs with the normative expectations of their social envir onment. 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.
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Rationality; socially adaptive belief; cooperation; reputation; interactionist theory of reasoning; cultural epidemiology