Functional Representation of the Intentional Bounded Rationality of Decision-Makers: A Laboratory to Study the Decisions a Priori Sáenz Royo, Carlos Herrera Viedma, Enrique Intended bounded rationality Beliefs Logic Maximum entropy This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, [ECO2013-48496-C4-3-R and MTM2016-77642-C2-2-P], the Diputacion General de Aragon (DGA) and the European Social Fund [CREVALOR], the Spanish State Research Agency Projects PID2019-10380RBI00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and the Andalusian Government Project P20_00673. The judgments of decision-makers are frequently the best way to process the information on complex alternatives. However, the performances of the alternatives are often not observable in their entirety, which prevents researchers from conducting controlled empirical studies. This paper justifies a functional representation that, due to its good predictive results, has been widely used ad hoc in studies in different branches of knowledge; it formalizes aspects of the human mental structure that influence the ability of people to decide and the intentional bounded rationality, and it subsequently analyzes how the reliability of decision-makers is affected by the difficulty of the problem and the expertise and beliefs of the decision-maker. The main research objective of this paper is to derive explicitly a general functional form that represents the behavior of a decision-maker linked to their way of thinking. This functional form allows a laboratory to be created to study a priori the performance of human decisions, i.e., the probability of choosing each of the alternatives, once the returns of the alternatives, the level of expertise, and the initial beliefs of the decision-maker are known exogenously. This laboratory will allow (1) the evaluation of decision support techniques; (2) the creation of agent-based models that anticipate group performances due to individual interactions; and (3) the development of other investigations based on statistical simulations. 2022-04-05T12:08:01Z 2022-04-05T12:08:01Z 2022-02-26 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Sáenz-Royo, C.; Chiclana, F.; Herrera-Viedma, E. Functional Representation of the Intentional Bounded Rationality of Decision- Makers: A Laboratory to Study the Decisions a Priori. Mathematics 2022, 10, 739. [https://doi.org/10.3390/math10050739] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/74148 10.3390/math10050739 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI