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A peace treaty for the rationality wars? External validity and its relation to normative and descriptive theories of rationality

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Summary, in English

If we know that certain ways of making decisions are associated with real-life success, is this then how we should decide? In this paper the relationship between normative and descriptive theories of decision-making is examined. First, it is shown that the history of the decision sciences ensures that it is impossible to separate descriptive theories from normative ones. Second, recent psychological research implies new ways of arguing from the descriptive to the normative. The paper ends with an evaluation of how this might affect normative theories of decision-making.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

458-478

Publication/Series

Theory & Psychology

Volume

23

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • Correspondence
  • Decision-making
  • Decision Competency
  • Rationality
  • External Validity
  • Descriptive
  • Decision Outcome
  • Normative
  • Coherence

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1461-7447