Rationality & Society
@rss-journal.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed journal debating the rational action paradigm and showing how it helps to understand societal problems.
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Edited by Andreas Flache
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Submit: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/RSS
Edited by Andreas Flache
Account managed by @aloseva.bsky.social
So what are #emotions?
🔨 Tools that rational agents use for #strategic calculation?
🧲 Or forces that shape #social life — directing attention, defining what counts as #rational #choice?
Smith-Lovin argues that emotions frame rationality itself. 🎞
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
🔨 Tools that rational agents use for #strategic calculation?
🧲 Or forces that shape #social life — directing attention, defining what counts as #rational #choice?
Smith-Lovin argues that emotions frame rationality itself. 🎞
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
Can Emotionality and Rationality be Reconciled? - LYNN SMITH-LOVIN, 1993
Economists invoke emotions narrowly to solve commitment problems; sociologists view emotions as a more pervasive basic feature of social life. A complete approa...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So what are #emotions?
🔨 Tools that rational agents use for #strategic calculation?
🧲 Or forces that shape #social life — directing attention, defining what counts as #rational #choice?
Smith-Lovin argues that emotions frame rationality itself. 🎞
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
🔨 Tools that rational agents use for #strategic calculation?
🧲 Or forces that shape #social life — directing attention, defining what counts as #rational #choice?
Smith-Lovin argues that emotions frame rationality itself. 🎞
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
Frank saw #emotions as adding weight to promises and threats — enabling #cooperation in #PrisonersDilemma. But his #GameTheory model was criticized.
Ross & Dumouchel reframe emotions as #SocialSignals that help us coordinate on “which game” we’re playing.
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ross & Dumouchel reframe emotions as #SocialSignals that help us coordinate on “which game” we’re playing.
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Emotions as Strategic Signals - Don Ross, Paul Dumouchel, 2004
In this article, we ask how much, if anything, of Robert Frank’s (1988,
2004) theory of emotions as evolved strategic commitment devices can sur...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Frank saw #emotions as adding weight to promises and threats — enabling #cooperation in #PrisonersDilemma. But his #GameTheory model was criticized.
Ross & Dumouchel reframe emotions as #SocialSignals that help us coordinate on “which game” we’re playing.
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ross & Dumouchel reframe emotions as #SocialSignals that help us coordinate on “which game” we’re playing.
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Evergreens:
📣 Why people embrace #populism?
💬 "the general public tends to see `major problems' that experts doubt are problems at all"
🤥 Do populist politicians really believe what they say?
💬 "[electoral] competition <...> selects for politicians who genuinely share [their voters'] biases"
📣 Why people embrace #populism?
💬 "the general public tends to see `major problems' that experts doubt are problems at all"
🤥 Do populist politicians really believe what they say?
💬 "[electoral] competition <...> selects for politicians who genuinely share [their voters'] biases"
August 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Evergreens:
📣 Why people embrace #populism?
💬 "the general public tends to see `major problems' that experts doubt are problems at all"
🤥 Do populist politicians really believe what they say?
💬 "[electoral] competition <...> selects for politicians who genuinely share [their voters'] biases"
📣 Why people embrace #populism?
💬 "the general public tends to see `major problems' that experts doubt are problems at all"
🤥 Do populist politicians really believe what they say?
💬 "[electoral] competition <...> selects for politicians who genuinely share [their voters'] biases"
Don’t miss the critique & follow-up of this paper. Same theory, same event — two very different takes.
✊ Nieva’s comment: power shifts between ruling elite and marginalized groups
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
🕸 Authors’ reply: the power of #SocialNetwork analysis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
✊ Nieva’s comment: power shifts between ruling elite and marginalized groups
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
🕸 Authors’ reply: the power of #SocialNetwork analysis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
July 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Don’t miss the critique & follow-up of this paper. Same theory, same event — two very different takes.
✊ Nieva’s comment: power shifts between ruling elite and marginalized groups
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
🕸 Authors’ reply: the power of #SocialNetwork analysis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
✊ Nieva’s comment: power shifts between ruling elite and marginalized groups
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
🕸 Authors’ reply: the power of #SocialNetwork analysis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...
"Weak ties as a liability: The case of East Germany", 2001
June 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Weak ties as a liability: The case of East Germany", 2001