High-stakes decisions do not require narrative conviction but narrative flexibility
Department
English
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2023
Abstract
We challenge Johnson et al.'s assumption that people reduce unclear situations to a single narrative explanation and that such reduction would be adaptive for decision-making under radical uncertainty. Instead, we argue that people imagine and maintain multiple narrative possibilities throughout the decision-making process and that this process provides cognitive flexibility and adaptive benefits within the proposed model.
Journal Title
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Journal ISSN
0140525X
Volume
46
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/S0140525X22002606
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