Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

A key instrument for upgrading China's agriculture is the Internet of Things (IoT). To solve the
problem of IoT technology promotion, farmers' intentions to adopt IoT technology must be …

This study investigates the association between CEOs' over-confidence in experiencing
financial distress or soundness, future earnings management, and over and under …

While we agree in broad strokes with the characterisation of rationalization as a “useful
fiction,” we think that Fiery Cushman's claim remains ambiguous in two crucial respects:(1) …

In this commentary, we offer an additional function of rationalization. Namely, in certain
social contexts, the proximal and ultimate function of beliefs and desires is social inclusion …

Household financial vulnerability represents a significant financial challenge, predominantly
impacting low and middle-income households when faced with sudden changes in income …

In this commentary, I highlight the relevance of Cushman's target paper for the popular dual
process framework of thinking. I point to the problematic characterization of rationalization in …

Aim The COVID-19 epidemic has caused risk and uncertainty. This study answers whether
and how psychological distress and digital sports influence willingness to take the vaccine …

dc. description. abstract The action-based model of cognitive dissonance proposes an
adaptive function for rationalization that differs from the one offered by Cushman. The one …

In the field of system dynamics (SD), there has been a missing set of theoretically sound
techniques for explicitly modeling dynamics during discrete decision‐making processes …