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Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (Evolution and Cognition (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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Short Description for Rationality for MortalsThis volume collects Gigerenzer's recent articles on the psychology of rationality. This volume should appeal, like the earlier volumes, to a broad mixture of cognitive psychologists, philosophers, economists, and others who study decision making.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 01 July 2008
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Decision Theory: General | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology | Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge
- ISBN 13: 9780195328981 ISBN 10: 0195328981
- Sales rank: 740,747
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Full description for Rationality for Mortals
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.
