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Is there an area of knowledge and research about politics/ social life/ how people think? I mean down to nitty gritty mathematical concepts in the same sense as something like economics attempts to do. Basically away to understand our world in a fairly rational way.
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philosophy
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>>8772942
he said rational
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>>8772926
Linguistics.
>t. linguist
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>>8772926
>politics/ social life/ how people think
political science/sociology/psychology
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Marketing
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>>8772964
good suggestion
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>>8772964
and advertisement
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>>8772926
yeah it's called game theory
but it's based on the false assumption that people always act rationally
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>>8772980
>but it's based on the false assumption that people always act rationally
didn't economics have this exact same problem?
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>>8772980
Game theory has wider applications than that. Evolutionary biology is a good example.
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>>8772986
yes game theory has wider applications
but OP only asked about people
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>>8772991
Fair enough.
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>>8772926
Cattle herding.
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>>8773006
Well there are branches of sociolinguistics, but you are right. I mentioned linguistics because one of the categories asked about is 'how people think'. Linguistics, at least in the generative tradition, is one of the more mathematically rich models of a cognitive faculty.
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>>8772926
women's studies
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