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    Supports→When observed behavior does not match the behavior prescribed by rational analysis, one valid response is to abandon pure rational analysis in favor of mechanistic accounts of human psychology

    The details of human psychological mechanisms can explain behavioral deviations that rational analysis alone cannot account for

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    Rational analyses separate the goal of behavior from the mechanisms that cause behavior. Thus, when an organism’s observed behavior in an environment does not agree with the behavior prescribed by a rational analysis for that environment, there are traditionally three responses. One strategy is to change the specifications of the problem, by introducing an intermediate step or changing the goal altogether, or altering the environmental constraints, et cetera (Anderson & Schooler 1991; Oaksfo

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