Evolution and Cognition Series

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-515372-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

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 where the laws of logic and probability reign, and places it into our real world of human behavior and interaction. Adaptive Thinking is accessibly written for general readers with an interest in psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and animal behavior. It also teaches a practical audience, such as physicians, AIDS counselors, and experts in criminal law, how to understand and communicate uncertainties and risks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gigerenzer, Gerd

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part One: Where Do New Ideas Come From?

- Introduction

- 1: From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery

- 2: Mind as computer: The social origin of a metaphor

- 3: Ideas in exile: The struggles of an upright man

- Part Two: Ecological Rationality

- Introduction

- 4: Ecological Intelligence

- 5: AIDS counselling for low-risk clients

- 6: How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction

- Part Four: Bounded Rationality

- 7: Probabilistic mental models

- 8: Reasoning the fast and frugal way

- Part Four: Social Rationality

- 9: Rationality: Why social context matters

- 10: Domain-specific reasoning: Social contracts and cheater detection

- 11: The modularity of social intelligence

- Part Five: Illusions and Rituals

- 12: How to make cognitive illusions disappear

- 13: The Superego, the Ego, and the Id in statistical reasoning

- 14: Surrogates for theories

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and was previously a professor of psychology at The University of Chicago and other institutions. His books include the recent Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart (Oxford, 1999).