Edward Funkhouser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Funkhouser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Funkhouser |
| SIGNATURE | FUNKHOUSER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3703-5197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Are the religious make-believing, or are they making themselves believe
Self-handicapping and self-deception: A two-way street
Deflationists reduce self-deception to a motivated bias, eliminating the need for doxastic tension, divided minds, intentions, or even effortful action. While deflationism fits many cases, there are others that demand more robust psychological processes and complexity. We turn to the empirical literature on self-handicapping to find commonplace examples of self-deception with high levels of agential involvement. Many self-handicappers experience …
Dangerous beliefs, effective signals
Some collective irrationalities, like epistemically and pragmatically reckless Covid skepticism, are especially dangerous. While we normally have incentives to avoid dangerous beliefs, there are cases in which the danger of a belief is valuable. This is not captured by most accounts of motivated reasoning. I argue that Covid skepticism can function as a costly signal (handicap) so as to more effectively communicate social identity and commitment
Interactive Self-Deception in Digital Spaces
Self-deceptive projects are frequently supported by our social environment, with others influencing both our motives and capacities for self-deception. Digital spaces offer even more opportunities for interactive self-deception. Digital platforms are incentivized to sort us and capture our engagement, and online users also have desires to be sorted and engaged. The execution of self-deception is partially offloaded to algorithms and social networ…
A tribal mind: Beliefs that signal group identity or commitment
People are biased toward beliefs that are welcomed by their in‐group. Some beliefs produced by these biases—such as climate change denial and religious belief—can be fruitfully modeled by signaling theory. The idea is that the beliefs function so as to be detected by others and manipulate their behavior, primarily for the benefits that accrue from favorable tribal self‐presentation. Signaling theory can explain the etiology, distinctive form, pro…
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: Design for natural and artificial systems
Self-Deception and the Limits of Folk Psychology
This article considers the product of self-deception. Many assume, or argue, that the product of self-deception is a belief. I argue against this being a general truth by outlining some of the ways in which the self-deceived can be deeply conflicted, such that there is no fact of the matter concerning what they believe. These situations are not adequately addressed by many accounts of self-deception. Further, I argue that this task requires going…
Multiple Realizability
This article explains the concept of multiple realizability and its role in the philosophy of mind. In particular, I consider what is required for the multiple realizability of psychological kinds, the relevance of multiple realizability to the reducibility and autonomy of psychology, as well as further refinements of the concept that would prove helpful
Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America
Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out explores various forms of social exclusion, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion from health care in Brazil, barriers to legal statu…
Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants
Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants
Increases in the number and size of enclaves of the new immigrant groups from Latin America and Asia during the 1980s have changed the ethnic composition of many American cities. I have classified primary and secondary enclave networks for each immigrant country of origin in order to examine changes in the geographic concentration of immigrants. First I calculated the Duncan index of dissimilarity for immigrants relative to natives at the metropo…
Changes in the returns to education in Costa Rica
The importance of firm wage differentials in explaining hourly earnings variation in the large-scale sector of Guatemala
Labor market adjustment to political conflict Changes in the labor market in El Salvador during the 1980s
Mobility and Labor Market Segmentation: The Urban Labor Market in El Salvador
Demand-Side and Supply-Side Explanations for Barriers to Labor Market Mobility in Developing Countries: The Case of Guatemala
developing countries ; labour market
The urban informal sector in Central America: Household survey evidence
Remittances from International Migration: A Comparison of El Salvador and Nicaragua
I use household data from El Salvador and Nicaragua to examine the determinants of remittances from international migration. Nearly twice as many households in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, receive remittances from relatives abroad than do households in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and of those who receive remittances, the average remittance received in San Salvador is over double that in Managua-$119/month to $45/month. I find …
The Labor Market Skills of Recent Male Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Using data from special supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors track the education and hourly earnings of recent male immigrants to the United States. In terms of these measures of labor market skills, the CPS data suggest that immigrants who came in the late 1980s were more skilled than those who arrived earlier in the decade. This pattern represents a break from the steady decline in immigrant skill levels observed in 1…
The Choice of Migration Destination: Dominican and Cuban Immigrants to the Mainland United States and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico provides an alternative destination for immigrants from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean because the culture is similar to that in the source country. In this study, we use the 1980 [U.S.] Census of Population to examine the importance of relative earnings and culture in the choice of destination. The main finding is the similar pattern of choice of location for immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The more educated and more…
The Choice of Migration Destination: Dominican and Cuban Immigrants to the Mainland United States and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico provides an alternative destination for immigrants from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean because the culture is similar to that in the source country. In this study, we use the 1980 Census of Population to examine the importance of relative earnings and culture in the choice of destination. The main finding is the similar pattern of choice of location for immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The more educated and more profes…
Migration from Nicaragua: Some recent evidence
The Labor Market Skills of Recent Male Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Using data from special supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors track the education and hourly earnings of recent male immigrants to the United States. In terms of these measures of labor market skills, the CPS data suggest that immigrants who came in the late 1980s were more skilled than those who arrived earlier in the decade. This pattern represents a break from the steady decline in immigrant skill levels observed in 1…
Migration from Nicaragua: Some recent evidence
The urban informal sector in Central America: Household survey evidence
Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants
Increases in the number and size of enclaves of the new immigrant groups from Latin America and Asia during the 1980s have changed the ethnic composition of many American cities. I have classified primary and secondary enclave networks for each immigrant country of origin in order to examine changes in the geographic concentration of immigrants. First I calculated the Duncan index of dissimilarity for immigrants relative to natives at the metropo…
Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants
The Choice of Migration Destination: Dominican and Cuban Immigrants to the Mainland United States and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico provides an alternative destination for immigrants from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean because the culture is similar to that in the source country. In this study, we use the 1980 Census of Population to examine the importance of relative earnings and culture in the choice of destination. The main finding is the similar pattern of choice of location for immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The more educated and more profes…
Changes in the returns to education in Costa Rica
Labor market adjustment to political conflict Changes in the labor market in El Salvador during the 1980s
Mobility and Labor Market Segmentation: The Urban Labor Market in El Salvador
The Choice of Migration Destination: Dominican and Cuban Immigrants to the Mainland United States and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico provides an alternative destination for immigrants from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean because the culture is similar to that in the source country. In this study, we use the 1980 [U.S.] Census of Population to examine the importance of relative earnings and culture in the choice of destination. The main finding is the similar pattern of choice of location for immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The more educated and more…
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: Design for natural and artificial systems
Multiple Realizability
This article explains the concept of multiple realizability and its role in the philosophy of mind. In particular, I consider what is required for the multiple realizability of psychological kinds, the relevance of multiple realizability to the reducibility and autonomy of psychology, as well as further refinements of the concept that would prove helpful
Demand-Side and Supply-Side Explanations for Barriers to Labor Market Mobility in Developing Countries: The Case of Guatemala
developing countries ; labour market
Migration from Nicaragua: Some recent evidence
The Choice of Migration Destination: Dominican and Cuban Immigrants to the Mainland United States and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico provides an alternative destination for immigrants from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean because the culture is similar to that in the source country. In this study, we use the 1980 [U.S.] Census of Population to examine the importance of relative earnings and culture in the choice of destination. The main finding is the similar pattern of choice of location for immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The more educated and more…
The Choice of Migration Destination: Dominican and Cuban Immigrants to the Mainland United States and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico provides an alternative destination for immigrants from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean because the culture is similar to that in the source country. In this study, we use the 1980 Census of Population to examine the importance of relative earnings and culture in the choice of destination. The main finding is the similar pattern of choice of location for immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The more educated and more profes…
Remittances from International Migration: A Comparison of El Salvador and Nicaragua
I use household data from El Salvador and Nicaragua to examine the determinants of remittances from international migration. Nearly twice as many households in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, receive remittances from relatives abroad than do households in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and of those who receive remittances, the average remittance received in San Salvador is over double that in Managua-$119/month to $45/month. I find …
The Labor Market Skills of Recent Male Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Using data from special supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors track the education and hourly earnings of recent male immigrants to the United States. In terms of these measures of labor market skills, the CPS data suggest that immigrants who came in the late 1980s were more skilled than those who arrived earlier in the decade. This pattern represents a break from the steady decline in immigrant skill levels observed in 1…
The urban informal sector in Central America: Household survey evidence
Labor market adjustment to political conflict Changes in the labor market in El Salvador during the 1980s
Mobility and Labor Market Segmentation: The Urban Labor Market in El Salvador
Demand-Side and Supply-Side Explanations for Barriers to Labor Market Mobility in Developing Countries: The Case of Guatemala
developing countries ; labour market
Changes in the returns to education in Costa Rica
The importance of firm wage differentials in explaining hourly earnings variation in the large-scale sector of Guatemala
Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants
Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants
Increases in the number and size of enclaves of the new immigrant groups from Latin America and Asia during the 1980s have changed the ethnic composition of many American cities. I have classified primary and secondary enclave networks for each immigrant country of origin in order to examine changes in the geographic concentration of immigrants. First I calculated the Duncan index of dissimilarity for immigrants relative to natives at the metropo…
Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America
Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out explores various forms of social exclusion, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion from health care in Brazil, barriers to legal statu…
Multiple Realizability
This article explains the concept of multiple realizability and its role in the philosophy of mind. In particular, I consider what is required for the multiple realizability of psychological kinds, the relevance of multiple realizability to the reducibility and autonomy of psychology, as well as further refinements of the concept that would prove helpful
Self-Deception and the Limits of Folk Psychology
This article considers the product of self-deception. Many assume, or argue, that the product of self-deception is a belief. I argue against this being a general truth by outlining some of the ways in which the self-deceived can be deeply conflicted, such that there is no fact of the matter concerning what they believe. These situations are not adequately addressed by many accounts of self-deception. Further, I argue that this task requires going…
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: Design for natural and artificial systems
Interactive Self-Deception in Digital Spaces
Self-deceptive projects are frequently supported by our social environment, with others influencing both our motives and capacities for self-deception. Digital spaces offer even more opportunities for interactive self-deception. Digital platforms are incentivized to sort us and capture our engagement, and online users also have desires to be sorted and engaged. The execution of self-deception is partially offloaded to algorithms and social networ…
A tribal mind: Beliefs that signal group identity or commitment
People are biased toward beliefs that are welcomed by their in‐group. Some beliefs produced by these biases—such as climate change denial and religious belief—can be fruitfully modeled by signaling theory. The idea is that the beliefs function so as to be detected by others and manipulate their behavior, primarily for the benefits that accrue from favorable tribal self‐presentation. Signaling theory can explain the etiology, distinctive form, pro…
Dangerous beliefs, effective signals
Some collective irrationalities, like epistemically and pragmatically reckless Covid skepticism, are especially dangerous. While we normally have incentives to avoid dangerous beliefs, there are cases in which the danger of a belief is valuable. This is not captured by most accounts of motivated reasoning. I argue that Covid skepticism can function as a costly signal (handicap) so as to more effectively communicate social identity and commitment
Self-handicapping and self-deception: A two-way street
Deflationists reduce self-deception to a motivated bias, eliminating the need for doxastic tension, divided minds, intentions, or even effortful action. While deflationism fits many cases, there are others that demand more robust psychological processes and complexity. We turn to the empirical literature on self-handicapping to find commonplace examples of self-deception with high levels of agential involvement. Many self-handicappers experience …
Are the religious make-believing, or are they making themselves believe
Economics (13 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Earnings (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Demography (6 works)