BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251218T191023EST-450596Kd42@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251219T001023Z DESCRIPTION:Folk epistemology of (ir)rationality\n\nBy Igor Grossmann\, PhD \, Wisdom & Culture Lab\, University of Waterloo.\n\nThe talk will take pl ace from 3 to 5pm via Zoom.\n\nPlease register here\n\nBIONOTE\n\nIgor Gro ssmann is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterl oo\, Canada\, where he leads the Wisdom and Culture Lab. As a behavioral/s ocial scientist\, Grossmann has been working on demystifying what makes up a “wise” judgment in the context of revolving societal and cultural chang es. His chief work aims to uncover misconceptions about wisdom and societa l change and identifying cultural and psychological processes that enable people to think and act wisely. Grossmann’s work has been published in suc h outlets as Science Advances\, Proceedings of the Royal Academy: Biologic al Science\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\, Perspectives on Psychological Science\, Psychological Science\, Journal of Experimental Psychology\, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His contributions have been recognized through num erous awards (e.g.\, Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychologic al Foundation\, SAGE Young Scholar Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology\, Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychologic al Science). He has been an Associate Editor of Emotion\, and currently is an Associate Editor of the flagship journal for Social and Personality Ps ychology—Social Psychological and Personality Science\, and co-hosts the “ On Wisdom Podcast\,” aiming to disseminate scientific insights from cognit ive and social sciences to the broad academic audience and the general pub lic. Professor Grossmann holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University o f Michigan.\n\nABSTRACT\n\nRational economists and reasonable lawyers: Rat ionality and reasonableness as central tenets of folk theories of sound ju dgment \n\nNormative theories of judgment either focus on the rational sta ndard – decontextualized\, rule-based preference maximization\, or the rea sonable standard – the pragmatic/interpretative balance of preferences and socially-conscious norms. Despite centuries of theoretical work on such c oncepts\, a critical question appears overlooked: How do people’s intuitio ns and behavior about these concepts relate to theoretical frameworks adva nced in economics\, politics\, and the law? I will show that people sustai n both standards of judgmental competence\, evidenced in spontaneous descr iptions\, personality characteristics and behavioral strategies they attri bute to rational vs. reasonable agents. People spontaneously considered bo th rationality and reasonableness as central features of sound judgment an d yet assigned unique attributes to these standards when mapping concept n etworks. I will further explore preferences for and perception of agents i n different social contexts (varying in demands for rule-based vs. holisti c approaches to decision-making)\, and categorization of non-social object s. The distinction between the rational and the reasonable holds in writte n media across multiple languages (English\, Russian\, Portuguese\, Spanis h). Further\, experiments among North Americans and Pakistani bankers\, st reet merchants\, and samples engaging in exchange (vs. market-) economy sh ow that rationality and reasonableness lead people to different conclusion s about what constitutes good judgment in dilemmas that pit self-interest against fairness: Rationality is reductionist and instrumental\, whereas r easonableness integrates preferences with particulars and moral concerns. Further experiments show that people favor rational agents for contexts de manding analytic reasoning and reasonable agents for contexts demanding in terpretive/holistic reasoning. Moreover\, across cultures\, people used ru le-based categorization for rational judgment and overall-similarity categ orization for reasonable judgment of non-social objects\n DTSTART:20211111T200000Z DTEND:20211111T220000Z SUMMARY:Culture Mind and Brain Speaker Series URL:/psychiatry/channels/event/culture-mind-and-brain- speaker-series-334478 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR