Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evolution, cognition, series, world, real, thinking, rationality, adaptive
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-03-07
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195153723
ISBN-13: 9780195153729

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social. Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and social rationality. His path-breaking collection takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world

Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evolution, cognition, uncertainty, cope, mortals, people, rationality
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-02
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195328981
ISBN-13: 9780195328981

Gerd Gigerenzer’s influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research program. This volume (which follows on a previous collection, Adaptive Thinking, also published by OUP) collects his most recent articles, looking at how people use "fast and frugal heuristics

Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: deceive, numbers, risks, calculated
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-03-19
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0743254236
ISBN-13: 9780743254236

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics. Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says that because we haven’t learned statistical thinking, we don’t understand risk and uncertainty. In order to assess risk -- everything from the risk of an automobile accident to the certaint

Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: unconscious, intelligence, feelings, gut
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-07-05
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0670038636
ISBN-13: 9780670038633

An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Now, Gigerenzer explains why our intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool. Drawing on a decade of research at the Max Plank Institute, Gigerenzer demonstrates that our gut feelings are actually the result of unconscious mental processes—processes that apply r

Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: unconscious, intelligence, feelings, gut
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143113763
ISBN-13: 9780143113768

Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Much better qualified to help us make decisions is the cognitive, emotional, and social repertoire we call intuition—a suite of gut feelings that have evolved over the millennia specifically for making decisions. “Gladwell drew heavily on Gigerenzer’s research. But Gigerenzer goes a step further by explaining just why our gut instincts are so often right. Intuition, it see

Authors:Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: toolbox, adaptive, rationality, bounded
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2002-08-07
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262571641
ISBN-13: 9780262571647

In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and unlimited time. About forty years ago, Herbert Simon challenged this view with his notion of "bounded rationality." Today, bounded rationality has become a fashionable term used for disparate views of reasoning. This book promotes bounded rationality as the key to understa

Authors:Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: reports, workshop, dahlem, law, heuristics
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0262072750
ISBN-13: 9780262072755

In recent decades, the economists’ concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers in "fast and frugal heuristics" propose another approach: using certain formulations or general principles (heuristics) to help navigate in an environment that is not a well-ordered setting with an occasional disturbance, as described in the language of rational choice, but instead is fundamentally