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Sampling as a resource-rational constraint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Adam N. Sanborn Open the ORCID record for Adam N. Sanborn [Opens in a new window] ,
Jianqiao Zhu ,
Jake Spicer  and
Nick Chater
Adam N. Sanborn
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, United Kingdom. a.n.sanborn@warwick.ac.ukJ.Zhu@warwick.ac.ukj.spicer@warwick.ac.ukhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/asanborn/https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/zjianqiao/
Jianqiao Zhu
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, United Kingdom. a.n.sanborn@warwick.ac.ukJ.Zhu@warwick.ac.ukj.spicer@warwick.ac.ukhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/asanborn/https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/zjianqiao/
Jake Spicer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, United Kingdom. a.n.sanborn@warwick.ac.ukJ.Zhu@warwick.ac.ukj.spicer@warwick.ac.ukhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/asanborn/https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/zjianqiao/
Nick Chater
Affiliation:
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Nick.Chater@wbs.ac.ukhttps://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/
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Abstract

Resource rationality is useful for choosing between models with the same cognitive constraints but cannot settle fundamental disagreements about what those constraints are. We argue that sampling is an especially compelling constraint, as optimizing accumulation of evidence or hypotheses minimizes the cost of time, and there are well-established models for doing so which have had tremendous success explaining human behavior.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e22
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