Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume 26, Issue 02  

Short Communication

Wanted: A reconciliation of rationality with determinism

Joachim I. Krueger a1

a1 Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 joachim_krueger@brown.edu www.brown.edu/departments/psychology/faculty/krueger.html

Abstract

In social dilemmas, expectations of reciprocity can lead to fully determined cooperation concurrent with the illusion of choice. The choice of the dominant alternative (i.e., defection) may be construed as being free and rational, but only at the cost of being incompatible with a behavioral science claiming to be deterministic.