Mind and Society

ISSNs: 1593-7879, 1860-1839

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    Scope of heuristics and digitalization: the case of marketing automation.Simone Guercini - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (2):151-164.
    This paper focuses on the impact of digitalization and marketing automation on the “scope” of the heuristics adopted in the marketers’ decision-making processes. The “scope” refers to the decision-making contexts in which the use of the heuristic rules is diffuse and is effective. More precisely, “scope" is (the extension of) the field in which a heuristic can be applied (successfully). The article is based on evidence collected through ethnographic interviews with twenty-three experienced marketers to discuss the impact of marketing automation (...)
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    Learning with insufficient data: a multi-armed bandit perspective on covid-19 interventions.Jean Czerlinski Whitmore Ortega - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (2):183-193.
    In February 2020, as covid-19 infections spread to more than fifty countries, public health officials needed to recommend how the public could protect themselves, balancing safety and urgency. But there was very little data since this novel virus had only been identified three months prior. How could public health officials decide with insufficient data? The multi-armed bandit problem of computer science offers adaptive decision-making procedures that can achieve both safety and urgency. These adaptive methods balance learning information (exploring) with using (...)
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    Mental footnotes in Socialism: the current social validity of the concept of bourgeoisie from the Marx’s and Engels’ “Manifesto of the communist party”.Jose L. Vilchez - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (2):165-182.
    Aim: The main aim of the present study is to identify which mental footnotes (related to Marx’s and Engels’ Socialism) have more weight in the current cognitive processing of citizens. Background: We used the “Manifesto of the communist party” as the main source of the thoughts from these authors. Method: An experimental design (based on a previous qualitative research) was carried out to test the influence of mental footnotes on the citizens’ decision on the validity of the concepts. Results: The (...)
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    A role-game laboratory experiment on the influence of country prospects reports on investment decisions in two artificial organizational settings.Marco Castellani, Linda Alengoz, Niccolò Casnici & Flaminio Squazzoni - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (1):121-149.
    This paper investigates how reports concerning a given country’s prospects affect investment decisions in two stylized, artificial organizational settings. We designed a role-game laboratory experiment, where subjects were asked to make investment decisions for two types of fictitious companies from the same country. We found that when available reports included positive country prospects, subjects strategized more on investments regardless of the characteristics of their organization. When reports included negative prospects, however, certain organizational peculiarities influenced the subjects’ interpretations, with decision-makers opting (...)
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    Multi-player electoral engineering and COVID-19 in the polish presidential elections in 2020.Jarosław Flis & Marek Kaminski - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (1):1-8.
    The uniqueness of Poland’s experience with the 2020 coronavirus lays in the interplay of two factors: the decisive governmental response to the pandemic, and the overlap of the pandemic with the country’s presidential election scheduled on May 10, 2020. The government’s fast reaction, combined with the citizens’ discipline, resulted in the suppression of the virus’s spread. The ratings of the current President Duda skyrocketed well above 50% needed for re-election in the first round. However, the expectation was that they would (...)
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    Do self-talk phrases affect behavior in ultimatum games?Vincenz Frey, Hannah N. M. De Mulder, Marlijn ter Bekke, Marijn E. Struiksma, Jos J. A. van Berkum & Vincent Buskens - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (1):89-119.
    The current study investigates whether self-talk phrases can influence behavior in Ultimatum Games. In our three self-talk treatments, participants were instructed to tell themselves (i) to keep their own interests in mind, (ii) to also think of the other person, or (iii) to take some time to contemplate their decision. We investigate how such so-called experimenter-determined strategic self-talk phrases affect behavior and emotions in comparison to a control treatment without instructed self-talk. The results demonstrate that other-focused self-talk can nudge proposers (...)
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    Animal vs. human rationality-cum-conceptuality: a philosophical perspective on developmental psychology.Yakir Levin & Itzhak Aharon - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (1):63-88.
    In this paper, we first extract from Susan Carey’s seminal account of the origin of concepts a notion of rationality, which is applicable to human infants and non-human animals; significantly different from the notions of rationality prevalent in behavioral ecology and yet, like these notions, amenable to empirical testing; conceptually more fundamental than the latter notions. Relatedly, this notion underlies a proto-conceptuality ascribable, by a key component of Carey’s account, to human infants and non-human animals. Based on a Kantian-inspired analysis (...)
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    Addressing threats like Covid: why we will tend to over-react and how we can do better.Mark Pingle - 2022 - Mind and Society 21 (1):9-23.
    A number of behavioral economic insights suggest we will tend to overreact, individually and collectively, to a new, serious, but low probability health threat, like Covid 19. To respond more effectively to such threats, we should recognize why we will tend to overreact and prepare in advance not to do so. We also should recognize the usefulness in giving lower level governments, non-profits, and less formal communities some ability to respond, rather than presuming we should address a significant threat like (...)
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