Behavioralism

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Behavioralism is a theory which suggests that the best way of measuring someone's preferences is to look at their behavior. It assumes that Cognitive Alignment is common in most cases, meaning that our actions reflect our true preferences.

However, it fails to account for cases of Insight Gap, where we know what we should do yet we fail to do so, and ignores cases of intrapersonal conflict. It also undermines the reasons for Nudge, because if people would have wanted a different outcome, they would have said so.

The advantages are that it escapes the Theory of Mind, no need to get into someone's head in order to understand what motivates them, we can look at their behavior and reverse engineer it.

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