Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - October 2011 - Volume 34, Issue 05  

Open Peer Commentary

Normative models in psychology are here to stay

Keith E. Stanovicha1

a1 Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada. keith.stanovich@utoronto.ca http://web.mac.com/kstanovich/Site/Home.html

Abstract

Elqayam & Evans (E&E) drive a wedge between Bayesianism and instrumental rationality that most decision scientists will not recognize. Their analogy from linguistics to judgment and decision making is inapt. Normative models remain extremely useful in the progressive research programs of the judgment and decision making field.

(Online publication October 14 2011)

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