Can resources save rationality? "Anti-Bayesian" updating in cognition and perception. (2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mandelbaum, Eric; Won, Isabel; Gross, Steven; Firestone, Chaz
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 43(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X19001717
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Resource rationality may explain suboptimal patterns of reasoning; but what of "anti-Bayesian" effects where the mind updates in a direction opposite the one it should? We present two phenomena – belief polarization and the size-weight illusion – that are not obviously explained by performance- or resource-based constraints, nor by the authors' brief discussion of reference repulsion. Can resource rationality accommodate them?