Rationality for Mortals

How People Cope with Uncertainty
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-532898-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: Evolution and Cognition Series

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" to calculate probability and risk and make decisions. It includes a newly writen, substantial introduction, and the articles have been revised and updated where appropriate. This volume should appeal, like the earlier volumes, to a broad mixture of cognitive psychologists, philosophers, economists, and
others who study decision making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gigerenzer, Gerd

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Entscheidungstheorie, Sozialwahltheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung

Über Autor(innen)

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development