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Rational reconstructions and the question of function 理性重构与功能问题
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119883959
Lina Eriksson
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引用次数: 1
The five games of Mr Edgar Allan Poe: A study of strategic thought in ‘The Purloined Letter’ 爱伦·坡的五种游戏:《失窃的信》的战略思想研究
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-09 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120961779
D. Read
{"title":"The five games of Mr Edgar Allan Poe: A study of strategic thought in ‘The Purloined Letter’","authors":"D. Read","doi":"10.1177/1043463120961779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463120961779","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates strategic thinking in the fictional world of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’. This short story has been rightly celebrated for its explicit analysis of strategic reasoning in which players attempt to outwit one another, which involves accounting for how they are all attempting to outwit one another. I differ from previous analyses by examining how the actors can often be wrong in their explicit analysis and consider the strategic actions they take rather than those they claim to take. Using elementary game theory, I describe the five games (and suggest a sixth) that make up the strategic heart of the story. These include games of signalling, screening, negotiation, revenge and a unique game called the ‘pincer’. I consider how literary sources like ‘The Purloined Letter’ can provide insights into the applicability of strategic analysis in the ‘real world’.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463120961779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49017193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Strategic tie formation for long-term exchange relations 形成长期交流关系的战略纽带
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119872566
W. Raub, V. Buskens, Vincenz Frey
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引用次数: 3
Two interpretations of the rational choice theory and the relevance of behavioral critique 理性选择理论的两种解释与行为批判的相关性
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119869007
Marek Hudík
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引用次数: 16
Reply to Wojtek Przepiorka: Testing goal-framing and hedonic hypocrisy 回复Wojtek Przepiorka:测试目标框架和享乐虚伪
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119869080
S. Lindenberg, L. Steg, M. Milovanovic, A. Schipper
{"title":"Reply to Wojtek Przepiorka: Testing goal-framing and hedonic hypocrisy","authors":"S. Lindenberg, L. Steg, M. Milovanovic, A. Schipper","doi":"10.1177/1043463119869080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463119869080","url":null,"abstract":"It is always an honor when, after one publishes a study, somebody takes the time and effort to figure out how it could have been done better (Lindenberg et al., 2018; Przepiorka, 2019). It is a public service, and we are grateful for the effort. Although we are and remain quite proud of our studies and their results, there is, as in any study, always room for improvement and it is certainly important to test hypotheses also via other designs. However, we feel there are a number of misinterpretations, omissions, and confusions in Dr. Przepiorka’s comments, each of which we would like to discuss.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463119869080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47216388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Desire and pleasure in choice 选择中的欲望和快乐
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120921254
Daniel A. Newark
{"title":"Desire and pleasure in choice","authors":"Daniel A. Newark","doi":"10.1177/1043463120921254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463120921254","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how desire leads to pleasure through choice. A typical assumption of rational choice models is that decision makers experience pleasure or utility primarily when their desires are satisfied by decision outcomes. This article proposes that, in addition to desire yielding pleasure through its satisfaction, desiring can also yield pleasure directly during choice. Beyond the pleasures of getting what we want, there may be pleasures in the wanting. In particular, four psychological and behavioral mechanisms through which desire can yield pleasure during choosing are identified: imagining the desired object, learning about the desired object, constructing one’s self while clarifying the desired object, and pursuing the desired object. This said, although desire may, through these mechanisms, offer considerable immediate pleasure, this article posits that indulging these pleasures tends to foster subsequent disappointment with decision outcomes. The article concludes by considering the implications for decision making of this expanded view of desire’s relationship to pleasure in choice.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463120921254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45821296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
No evidence for hedonic shifts to bring about more moral hypocrisy: A comment on Lindenberg et al. (2018) 没有证据表明享乐主义的转变会带来更多的道德虚伪:对Lindenberg等人的评论(2018)
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-07-12 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119863061
W. Przepiorka
{"title":"No evidence for hedonic shifts to bring about more moral hypocrisy: A comment on Lindenberg et al. (2018)","authors":"W. Przepiorka","doi":"10.1177/1043463119863061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463119863061","url":null,"abstract":"Lindenberg et al. report experimental evidence for the effect of hedonic shifts on subjects’ propensity to engage in moral hypocrisy. Hedonic shifts are changes in individuals’ cognitive states that can be triggered by cues in these individuals’ environments such as ambient smells. Individuals in a hedonic cognitive state aim at doing what makes them feel good. Hence, the authors hypothesize that (1) individuals who are in a bad mood and are put in a hedonic cognitive state will more often take a moral stance and (2) when asked to act morally refuse to do so, (3) especially when the costs for acting morally are high, and (4) even if the moral issue upon which they are asked to act is unrelated to the issue pertaining to the moral stance they took. The authors test these four hypotheses in two laboratory experiments and conclude that their results support these hypotheses. In this comment, I highlight design, measurement, and data analysis issues arising with the two studies that challenge this conclusion. Throughout my comment, I give some indications as to how a laboratory experiment testing these four hypotheses could be designed and conducted.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463119863061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45892874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Gender effects and cooperation in collective action: A laboratory experiment 集体行动中的性别效应与合作:一项实验室实验
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119858788
A. Peshkovskaya, Tatiana S Babkina, M. Myagkov
{"title":"Gender effects and cooperation in collective action: A laboratory experiment","authors":"A. Peshkovskaya, Tatiana S Babkina, M. Myagkov","doi":"10.1177/1043463119858788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463119858788","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous researches have indicated that men’s and women’s cooperation varied from no differences to significant differences under the influence of different contextual characteristics. In this study, we investigated how social factors together with a gender composition of a group affected gender differences in cooperation. We found that mixed-sex groups were the most effective in cooperation. At the same time, cooperation level in same-sex groups varied significantly. Besides, in same-sex groups, men demonstrated a higher level of trust and gratitude than women. Among women, in same-sex groups, a tendency toward mutual distrust and competition was revealed more often than among men.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463119858788","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47194301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 14
Should we study political behaviour as rituals? Towards a general micro theory of politics in everyday life 我们应该把政治行为作为仪式来研究吗?走向日常生活中的一般微观政治理论
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119853543
P. Marx
{"title":"Should we study political behaviour as rituals? Towards a general micro theory of politics in everyday life","authors":"P. Marx","doi":"10.1177/1043463119853543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463119853543","url":null,"abstract":"Political behaviour research is divided into several explanatory approaches. They have in common that they disregard, to varying extents, the social bases of their explanatory concepts. To fill this void, the present article explores the theoretical advantages of applying Randal Collins’s ritual theory to political behaviour. The central claim is that any cognitive factor, such as interests, values, norms or identities has to be infused with emotional resonance in concrete social interaction in order to become a relevant motivation for political behaviour. Based on this argument, the article develops four testable propositions and discusses how they relate to existing approaches. The article concludes that ritual-based emotions are a unified motivational basis for political behaviour, which help understand which cognitive factor becomes politically relevant in a specific situation. The theoretical discussion is complemented with suggestions of how to study political rituals empirically.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463119853543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44700985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
The influence of prescriptive norms and negative externalities on bribery decisions in the lab 规范性规范和负外部性对实验室贿赂决策的影响
IF 1 4区 社会学
Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2019-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/1043463119853893
Carlos Maximiliano Senci, Hipólito Hasrun, Rodrigo Moro, E. Freidin
{"title":"The influence of prescriptive norms and negative externalities on bribery decisions in the lab","authors":"Carlos Maximiliano Senci, Hipólito Hasrun, Rodrigo Moro, E. Freidin","doi":"10.1177/1043463119853893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463119853893","url":null,"abstract":"In most bribery games in the literature, there is no mention of rights and duties associated to participants’ roles. Authors have hitherto relied on loaded frames, negative externalities, and the possibility of sanctions to implicitly signal prescriptive norms. We argue that participants’ interpretation of these factors may not be univocal. In this study, a participant in the role of a common citizen either did or did not acquire the right to obtain a monetary benefit and could offer a bribe to an associated participant in the role of public official. This participant, in turn, had an explicit duty of providing the benefit only if the citizen acquired the right to it. Conditions with/without the acquisition of the right were crossed with the presence/absence of negative externalities associated with transgressions of the official’s duty. One last (fifth) condition mimicked other bribery games in the literature which rely on loaded frames and negative externalities but no information on rights and duties. We found that both the presence of externalities and information about rights were effective bribery deterrents, and that bribe offers and acceptances were most discouraged with their synergic effect. Interestingly, officials followed prescriptive information even when it was inefficient to do so (when there were no externalities), and implied choosing against their material self-interest (by rejecting a bribe), and not reciprocating bribe offers. We conclude by highlighting the limits of making generalizations from results without explicit normative information and the relevance of present findings as anti-corruption behavioral insights.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043463119853893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45164331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
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