Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes that ignore information. In contrast to the widely
held view that less processing reduces accuracy, the study of heuristics shows that less …

Can less information be more helpful when it comes to making medical decisions? Contrary
to the common intuition that more information is always better, the use of heuristics can help …

" 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 …

Heuristics are often viewed as inferior to “rational” strategies that exhaustively search and
process information. Introducing the theoretical perspective of ecological rationality, we …

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 …

The adaptive toolbox is a Darwinian-inspired theory that conceives of the mind as a modular
system that is composed of heuristics, their building blocks, and evolved capacities. The …

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 …

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 …

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If you open a book on judgment and decision making, chances are that you will stumble over
the following moral: Good reasoning must adhere to the laws of logic, the calculus of …