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MORAL BEHAVIOR AS RATIONAL EXPECTATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY MORAL BEHAVIOR AS RATIONAL EXPECTATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY
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Morality in Small Worlds Morality in Small Worlds
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When Conditions for Maximization Cannot Be Fulfilled, Should One Try to Approximate? When Conditions for Maximization Cannot Be Fulfilled, Should One Try to Approximate?
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MORAL BEHAVIOR AS BOUNDED RATIONALITY MORAL BEHAVIOR AS BOUNDED RATIONALITY
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PRINCIPLE ONE: LESS CAN BE MORE PRINCIPLE ONE: LESS CAN BE MORE
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PRINCIPLE TWO: SIMON'S SCISSORS PRINCIPLE TWO: SIMON'S SCISSORS
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MORAL SATISFICING MORAL SATISFICING
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Systematic Inconsistencies Systematic Inconsistencies
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Moral Luck Moral Luck
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THE STUDY OF MORAL SATISFICING THE STUDY OF MORAL SATISFICING
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Which Heuristics Underlie Moral Behavior? Which Heuristics Underlie Moral Behavior?
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What Social Environments, Together with Heuristics, Guide Moral Behavior? What Social Environments, Together with Heuristics, Guide Moral Behavior?
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How can Environments Be Designed so that People Can Better Reach Moral Goals? How can Environments Be Designed so that People Can Better Reach Moral Goals?
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SATISFICING IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY SATISFICING IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY
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ECOLOGICAL MORALITY ECOLOGICAL MORALITY
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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23 On the Psychology of the Recognition Heuristic: Retrieval Primacy as a Key Determinant of Its Use
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9 Moral Satisficing: Rethinking Moral Behavior as Bounded Rationality
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Published:April 2011
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What is the nature of moral behavior? According to the study of bounded rationality, it results not from character traits or rational deliberation alone, but from the interplay between mind and environment. In this view, moral behavior is based on pragmatic social heuristics rather than moral rules or maximization principles. These social heuristics are not good or bad per se, but solely in relation to the environments in which they are used. This has methodological implications for the study of morality: behavior needs to be studied in social groups as well as in isolation, in natural environments as well as in labs. It also has implications for moral policy: Only by accepting the fact that behavior is a function of both mind and environmental structures can realistic prescriptive means of achieving moral goals be developed.
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