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Rationality and illusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Jonathan Baron
Jonathan Baron
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6196 baron@psych.upenn.edu http:\\www.psych.upenn.edu\~baron
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Abstract

Commitment to a pattern of altruism or self-control may indeed be learnable and sometimes rational. Commitment may also result from illusions. In one illusion, people think that their present behavior causes their future behavior, or causes the behavior of others, when really only correlation is present. Another happy illusion is that morality and self-interest coincide, so that altruism appears self-interested.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 252 - 253
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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