Variational rationality. Self regulation success as a succession of worthwhile moves that make sufficient progress

Antoine Soubeyran

No 2307, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: This paper provides a general and formalized theory of self-regulation success and failures as an application of the recent Variational rationality approach of stay and change human dynamics (Soubeyran, 2009, 2010, 2021.a,b,c,d). For concreteness purposes, it starts with an example in psychology: how to gain or to loose weight ? It ends with a general, conceptual, dynamical and computable formulation of self-regulation and goal pursuit in the context of variational principles and adaptive optimizing algorithms in mathematics.

Keywords: variational rationality; self regulation; variational principles; adaptive optimizing algorithms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2023-04
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