Out of control: visceral influences on behavior

Article Abstract:

The visceral factor perspective assumes that immediately experienced visceral factors have a disproportionate effect on behavior and have a tendency to 'crowd out' virtually all goals except that of mitigating the visceral factor. It likewise assumes that people underestimate or even ignore visceral factors that they will experience in the future, have experienced in the past or those experienced by others. These two premises can be used to help explain a number of phenomena, such as impulsivity and self-control, drug addiction, anomalies about sexual behavior and some phenomena linked to motivation and action.

Psychological aspects, Physiological regulation, Biological control systems, Decision theory, Mind and body

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Commentary on aspects of Lola Lopes' paper

Article Abstract:

The two types of rationality embodied in subjective expected utility need to be distinguished to review behavioral evidence which point out the flaws of the theory. Preference rationality incorporates principles such as transitivity and consequence monotonicity, while structural rationality states that one's preferences should not be changed by modifying the manner by which a gamble is formulated as long as the bottom line remains the same. Rationality and nonrationality assumptions that can be explained empirically must be carefully merged to come up with descriptive theories.

Utility theory, Utility functions

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The temperature of Diff Con theory

Article Abstract:

Behavior cannot entirely be explained in information processing terms. Using Abelson's distinction between 'hot' and 'cold' cognition, cold errors are said to be unmotivated and considered to be a byproduct of the normal operations of the human information processing system while hot cognitive errors are assumed to be motivated mistakes. Motivated hot errors are said to stem from egocentricity and 'beneffectance,' which cannot be fully explained in information processing terms.

Cognition, Human information processing

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