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 …

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 …

" 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 …

This chapter presents a number of convergent arguments and empirical evidence for a
unified theoretical approach that explains both intuitive and deliberate judgments as rule …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that
people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with …

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 …

What is the nature of moral behavior? According to the study of bounded rationality, it results
not from character traits or rational deliberation alone, but from the interplay between mind …

Are older adults' decision abilities fundamentally compromised by age-related cognitive
decline? Or can they adaptively select decision strategies? One study (N= 163) investigated …

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 …