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Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty
Gerd Gigerenzer
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Description for Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty
Paperback. Series: Evolution and Cognition Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 collects recent articles, looking at how people use fast and frugal heuristics to calculate probability and risk and make decisions. It includes the revised articles and newly written introduction that ... Read more
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 collects recent articles, looking at how people use fast and frugal heuristics to calculate probability and risk and make decisions. It includes the revised articles and newly written introduction that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Evolution and Cognition Series
Condition
New
Weight
377g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199747092
SKU
V9780199747092
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About Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He has taught at the Universities of Munich, Constance, Salzburg, and Chicago. Recent books include Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart (1999, with Peter Todd et al.), Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (2000), Calculated Risks (2002), and Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious ... Read more
Reviews for Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty
Gerd Gigerenzer has created new, pathbreaking ways of thinking about human rationality. His ideas build on one another and are best seen as part of a coherent whole that is when the nature of his arguments emerges most clearly.
Leda Cosmides, University of California Santa Barbara
Leda Cosmides, University of California Santa Barbara