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 Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Evolution 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 note | Little-335943--305131044556. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-396) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 98051084 |
| ISBN | 0195121562 (alk. paper) |