Rationality vs. Reasonableness: Which is Most Important for Decision-making? (1 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Rationality vs. Reasonableness: Which is Most Important for Decision-making? (1 of 8)

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Spontaneous ascriptions of reasonable vs. rational persons. (A) Common themes in descriptions of rational and reasonable persons. (B) Themes differentiating reasonable (in blue on top) from rational (in brown on the bottom); size of the word is mapped to its maximum deviation across reasonable versus rational text corpora. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the January 8th, 2020, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. Grossmann at University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Folk standards of sound judgment: Rationality Versus Reasonableness."

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[Credit: Igor Grossmann]

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