During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice tradition and, indirectly, of behaviorism we...

Introduction: Why cognitive operations? -- Chapter 1: Approaches to cognitive modelling -- Chapter 2: Decisions under risk -- Chapter 3: Strategic interactions -- Chapter 4: Newsvendor problems -- Chapter 5: Decisions under uncertainty -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: The future of cognitive modelling...

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...