Add to ORKGOur beliefs are inextricably shaped through communication with others. Furthermore, even conversation we conduct in pairs, may itself be taking place across a wider, connected, social network. Our communication, and with that our thoughts, are consequently typically those of individuals in collectives. This has fundamental consequences with respect to how these beliefs are shaped. This paper examines the role of dependence on our beliefs and seeks to demonstrate its importance with respect to key phenomena involving collectives that have been taken to indicate irrationality. The paper argues that (with the benefit of hindsight) these phenomena no longer seem surprising when one considers the multiple dependencies that govern information acq...
Two lines of investigation into the nature of mental content have proceeded in parallel until now. T...
Abstract—A series of experiments were performed in order to explore the effect of communication netw...
Two lines of investigation into the nature of mental content have proceeded in parallel until now. T...
© Cambridge University Press 2006 and Cambridge University Press, 2009.INTRODUCTION In the last few ...
Human history has been marked by social instability and conflict, often driven by the irreconcilabil...
Groups matter in our ordinary folk psychology because a part of our social interactions is done with...
Consideration of collectives raises important questions about human rationality. This has long been...
Understanding the structure of social relationships is crucial for modeling human behavior. In real...
Research on the wisdom of crowds is motivated by the observation that the average belief in a large ...
We tend to think of cognition as something that takes place inside the heads of individual human age...
What is the relationship of the individual to society? This paper argues it is one of mutual depend...
We propose a cognitively plausible formal model of collective interpretation. The model represents h...
We propose a cognitively plausible formal model of collective interpretation. The model represents h...
This paper investigates trust behavior in situations where decision-makers are large groups and the ...
The cognitive approach to organizations assumes the existence of collective representations in organ...
Two lines of investigation into the nature of mental content have proceeded in parallel until now. T...
Abstract—A series of experiments were performed in order to explore the effect of communication netw...
Two lines of investigation into the nature of mental content have proceeded in parallel until now. T...
© Cambridge University Press 2006 and Cambridge University Press, 2009.INTRODUCTION In the last few ...
Human history has been marked by social instability and conflict, often driven by the irreconcilabil...
Groups matter in our ordinary folk psychology because a part of our social interactions is done with...
Consideration of collectives raises important questions about human rationality. This has long been...
Understanding the structure of social relationships is crucial for modeling human behavior. In real...
Research on the wisdom of crowds is motivated by the observation that the average belief in a large ...
We tend to think of cognition as something that takes place inside the heads of individual human age...
What is the relationship of the individual to society? This paper argues it is one of mutual depend...
We propose a cognitively plausible formal model of collective interpretation. The model represents h...
We propose a cognitively plausible formal model of collective interpretation. The model represents h...
This paper investigates trust behavior in situations where decision-makers are large groups and the ...
The cognitive approach to organizations assumes the existence of collective representations in organ...
Two lines of investigation into the nature of mental content have proceeded in parallel until now. T...
Abstract—A series of experiments were performed in order to explore the effect of communication netw...
Two lines of investigation into the nature of mental content have proceeded in parallel until now. T...