relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3977/
title: Evidence for Mixed Rationalities in Preference Formation
creator: Băbeanu, Alexandru-Ionuț
creator: Garlaschelli, Diego
subject: HA Statistics
subject: QC Physics
description: Understanding the mechanisms underlying the formation of cultural traits is an open challenge. This is intimately connected to  cultural dynamics, which has been the focus of a variety of quantitative models. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of  connecting thosemodels to empirically accessible snapshots of cultural dynamics. In particular, it has been suggested that empirical  cultural states, which differ systematically from randomized counterparts, exhibit properties that are universally present. Hence, a  question about the mechanism responsible for the observed patterns naturally arises. This study proposes a stochastic structural  model for generating cultural states that retain those robust empirical properties. One ingredient of the model assumes that every  individual’s set of traits is partly dictated by one of several universal “rationalities,” informally postulated by several social science  theories.The second, new ingredient assumes that, apart from a dominant rationality, each individual also has a certain exposure  to the other rationalities. It is shown that both ingredients are required for reproducing the empirical regularities. This suggests  that the effects of cultural dynamics in the real world can be described as an interplay of multiple, mixing rationalities, providing  indirect evidence for the class of social science theories postulating such a mixing.
publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
date: 2018
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3977/1/3615476.pdf
identifier:   Băbeanu, Alexandru-Ionuț and Garlaschelli, Diego  Evidence for Mixed Rationalities in Preference Formation.  Complexity, 2018.  pp. 1-19.  ISSN 1076-2787      (2018)  
relation: http://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3615476
relation: doi:10.1155/2018/3615476