As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such
dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics …

The Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) has hypothesised that much human
decision-making can be described by simple algorithmic process models (heuristics). This …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

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 …

Traditional views of rationality posit general-purpose decision mechanisms based on logic
or optimization. The study of ecological rationality focuses on uncovering the “adaptive …

Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This
volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and …

How do people select among different strategies to accomplish a given task? Across
disciplines, the strategy selection problem represents a major challenge. We propose a …

The recognition heuristic exploits the basic psychological capacity for recognition in order to
make inferences about unknown quantities in the world. In this article, we review and clarify …

Warum der Bauch oft die besseren Entscheidungen trifft als der Verstand: Der internationale
Bestseller jetzt bei Pantheon Wie wir durch Intuition schneller und effektiver handeln können …

Boundedly rational heuristics for inference can be surprisingly accurate and frugal for
several reasons. They can exploit environmental structures, co-opt complex capacities, and …