3.4: Judgmental Biases
Explore how our judgments of judgmental biases and errors inevitably rest on assumptions about the goals people are trying
to achieve.
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The work on alternative functionalist metaphors explores how our judgments of judgmental biases and errors inevitably rest
on assumptions about the goals people are trying to achieve by thinking, feeling, and acting as they do. What looks like an
error when we posit that people are intuitive scientists (trying to understand the world) or intuitive economists (trying
to maximize utility in competitive markets) may look quite defensible, even adaptive or appropriate when we posit that people
are intuitive politicians (trying to maintain good relations with key constituencies or intuitive theologians (trying to protect
sacred values against secular encroachments) or intuitive prosecutors (trying to deter violations of the normative order).
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