Homo Effectivus: Toward a Unified Model of Human Cognition for the Study of Social-ecological Systems

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7293
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Levine, J.; Chan, K.M.A.; Satterfield, Terre; Slingerland, E.
Conference:	Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
Location:	Hyderabad, India
Conf. Date:	January 10-14
Date:	2011
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7293
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources
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Subject(s):	social-ecological systems modeling rationality
Abstract:	"Institutional economics and related fields are struggling to reconcile their inherited assumptions about human rationality with the heterogeneous behaviours that are observed in both experimental and real-world conditions. This begs the question: what set of assumptions should we bring to the study of our own species’ role in complex systems? In response, we propose HOMO EFFECTIVUS: a model of human cognition, synthesized from various literatures, in which our propensity for mental efficiency, achieved mainly through analogical--or case-based--reasoning, is the primary assumption. This assumption can, in turn, directly inform how we select future objects of analysis."

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