" 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 …

While theories of rationality and decision making typically adopt either a single-powertool
perspective or a bag-of-tricks mentality, the research program of ecological rationality …

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

The classical view that equates rationality with adherence to the laws of probability theory
and logic has driven much research on inference. Recently, an increasing number of …

We distinguish between situations of risk, where all options, consequences, and
probabilities are known, and situations of uncertainty, where they are not. Probability theory …

In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the
constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision …

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists
perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive …

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The paper shows why and how an empirical study of fast-and-frugal heuristics can provide
norms of good reasoning, and thus how (and how far) rationality can be naturalized. We …

Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy
years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots …