Simple heuristics that make us smart / Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, and the ABC Research Group.

Author/creator Gigerenzer, Gerd
Other author Todd, Peter M.
Other author ABC Research Group.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Descriptionxv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEvolution and cognition
Evolution and cognition. ^A417677
Contents Fast and frugal heuristics: the adaptive toolbox / Gerd Gigerenzer and Peter M. Todd -- The recognition heuristic: how ignorance makes us smart / Daniel G. Goldstein and Gerd Gigerenzer -- Can ignorance beat the stock market? / Bernhard Borges, [et al.]... -- Betting on one good reason: the take the best heuristic / Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel G. Goldstein -- How good are simple heuristics? / Jean Czerlinski, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Daniel G. Goldstein -- Why does one-reason decision making work?: a case study in ecological rationality / Laura Martignon and Ulrich Hoffrage -- When do people use simple heuristics and how can we tell? / Jr̲g Rieskamp and Ulrich Hoffrage -- Bayesian benchmarks for fast and frugal heuristics / Laura Martignon and Kathryn Blackmond Laskey -- Hindsight bias: a price worth paying for fast and frugal memory / Ulrich Hoffrage and Ralph Hertwig -- Quick estimation: letting the environment do the work / Ralph Hertwig, Ulrich Hoffrage, and Laura Martignon -- Categorization by elimination: using few clues to choose / Patricia M. Berretty, Peter M. Todd, and Laura Martignon -- How motion reveals intention: categorizing social interactions / Philip W. Blythe, Peter M. Todd, and Geoffrey F. Miller -- From pride and prejudice to persuasion: satisficing in mate search / Peter M. Todd and Geoffrey F. Miller -- Parental investment by simple decision rules / Jennifer Nerissa Davis and Peter M. Todd -- Demons versus heuristics in artificial intelligence, behavioural ecology, and economics / Adam S. Goodie, [et al.]... -- What we have learned (so far) / Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigenrenzer.
Local noteLittle-335943--305131044556.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 367-396) and indexes.
LCCN 98051084
ISBN0195121562 (alk. paper)