Collective intention, social identity, and rational choice

Jelle de Boer

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2008, vol. 15, issue 2, 169-184

Abstract: In this paper I propose that what social psychologists refer to as social identity is a plausible empirical correlate on the part of the individual to what some philosophers and economists call collective intention. A discussion of an experiment yields the question what kind of mental state social identity might be and how it is related to the standard desire/belief conception. It is argued that social identity involves both a desire and a belief, and that one distinguishing feature of it is that it makes individual choice parametric.

Keywords: collective intention; social identity; game theory; parametric; B40; B41; C70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13501780801919139

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