I began with an analysis of how the psychology of cognition and knowledge have changed in between the the networked form of organization. Specifically, there is a shift in focus from hardware psychology of information to software psychology of knowledge and schema biases. Powerful knowledge...

Prospect theory posits that people perceive outcomes as gains or losses in relation to some reference point. People are generally loss averse: the disutility generated by a loss is greater than the utility produced by a commensurate gain. Chapter 6 of the book argues that loss aversion can...

A core proposition in economics is that voluntary exchanges benefit both parties. We show that people often deny the mutually beneficial nature of exchange, instead using zero-sum thinking. Participants read about simple exchanges of goods and services, judging whether each party to the...

Evolutionary psychology is the second wave of the cognitive revolution. The first wave focused on computational processes that generate knowledge about the world: perception, attention, categorization, reasoning, learning, and memory. The second wave views the brain as composed of evolved...

Wissenschaftslehre -- Kognitionstheorien -- Entwicklungs- und Persönlichkeitspsychologie -- Von der Wahrnehmung über das Lernen zum Gedächtnis -- Motivations- und Emotionstheorien -- Theorien zu Macht, Kontrolle und Austausch -- Theorie der Laienepistemologie.

The subject of this paper is how the epistemic limitations of individuals and their biases in reasoning affect collective decisions and in particular the functioning of democracies. In fact, while the cognitive sciences have largely shown how the imperfections of human rationality shape...