Love and Commitment

Rational Choice Models

typically assume that people choose among possible actions to maximize the extent to which they achieve their goals

Contradictions to Rational Choice Model

- Leaving tips at restaurant
- Someone who would return lost money to you
- The Ultimatum Game
- The Prisoner's Dilemma Game

The Prisoner's Dilemma Game

- Two prisoners are held in separate cells for a serious crime that they did, in fact, commit...
- If both parties act selfishly, neither does as well as if they both acted cooperatively

The Ultimatum Game

- Money game: keep offered money or reject and risk partner getting more
- Responders typically reject offers less than 30%; proposers usually offer around a 50/50 split

Commitment Device

a way of changing incentives so as to make otherwise empty threats or promises credible
- ex: blackmail

Moral Sentiments

emotions that compete with the feelings that spring from rational calculations of self-interest
- (anger, guilt, bla)
- ex: a strong feeling of guilt altering the actions a person chooses to take (guilt outweighs potential costs)
- ex: anger outweighing rationality

Irrationality

essential ingredient to the emotion of love

Commonalities between Love and the Rental Housing Makrer

1. Costs
2. Settlement
3. Investments
4. Harmed if someone suddenly terminated agreement

Emotional sentiments

Doomsday Machine

a tool for nuclear deterrence. Device to ensure a counterattack by a party after a perceived attack on that party.
- Analogy for

The strategy of conflict

the trick to coming out ahead in bargaining is "voluntary, but irreversible...."

The Doomsday Machine Theory

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- Also known as Mutually Assured Destruction,

The Inhibition Hypothesis

Expressions of...

How is the face a dual-processing system?

It is capable of both spontaneous and deliberate expressions