DeKay, W. T., Haselton, M. G., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (In press).
Reversing figure and ground in the rationality debate: An evolutionary
perspective [commentary on Stanovich & West]. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences.
Abstract
A broad evolutionary perspective is essential to fully reverse figure and
ground in the rationality debate. Humans’ evolved psychological architecture
was designed to produce inferences that were adaptive, not normatively
logical. This perspective points to several predictable sources of
errors in modern laboratory reasoning tasks, including inherent, systematic
biases in information-processing systems explained by Error Management
Theory.
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