[powertower]

> ...Bob may overestimate the probability that Alice lied intentionally and thus would experience more anger, because he will compute more possible outcomes where he gets hurt by Alice.

The author's theory kind of sounds like a "Parallel Universes / Many-Worlds Theory" model for psychology.

While it can be useful in many ways, the model itself might not be based on reality (i.g., how the brain works), and in the example - it might just be that the ego needs control, and when that control is shown to be false, it reacts the best way that particular brain's ego can...

A confident person would just blow what happened off. A stressed person might get angry. Etc.

[MarkPNeyer]

i plan to write a follow-up post on this, in terms of physics.

one of the ideas that heavily influenced me was this one:

http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-...

[tokai]

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/entropic-forces-an...