Roles: A Strategy To Avoid Information Overload

Abstract

Materialists have delineated technological and environmental factors that constrain human choices. This article suggests a known and tested mental factor, information processing, that serves a similar purpose and consequently also plays a role in organizing behavior. The limitations and the methods used for circumventing those limitations provide a framework for human interaction. Combining the interplay of mental and technoenvironmental constraints increases our ability to explain human behavior.