Collective intention, social identity, and rational choice
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| Publication date | 2008 |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Methodology |
| Volume | Issue number | 15 | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 169-184 |
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| Abstract | In this paper I propose that what social psychologists refer to as social identity is a plausible empirical correlate on the part of the individual to what some philosophers and economists call collective intention. A discussion of an experiment yields the question what kind of mental state social identity might be and how it is related to the standard desire/belief conception. It is argued that social identity involves both a desire and a belief, and that one distinguishing feature of it is that it makes individual choice parametric. |
| Document type | Article |
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13501780801919139
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