Adaptive thinking : rationality in the real world / Gerd Gigerenzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gigerenzer, Gerd, author.

Series:

Evolution and cognition.

Evolution and cognition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Reasoning.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rationality in the real world

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2000.

Summary:

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 thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social. Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and social rationality. His path-breaking collection takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world.

Contents:

Contents; I: Where Do New Ideas Come From?; 1. From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery; 2. Mind as computer: The social origin of a metaphor; 3. Ideas in exile: The struggles of an upright man; II: Ecological Rationality; 4. Ecological intelligence; 5. AIDS counseling for low-risk clients; 6. How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction; III: Bounded Rationality; 7. Probabilistic mental models; 8. Reasoning the fast and frugal way; IV: Social Rationality; 9. Rationality: Why social context matters; 10. Domain-specific reasoning: Social contracts and cheating detection

11. The modularity of social intelligence; V: Cognitive Illusions and Statistical Rituals; 12. How to make cognitive illusions disappear; 13. The Superego, the Ego, and the Id in statistical reasoning; 14. Surrogates for theories; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-83776-4

9786610837762

0-19-803117-3

OCLC:

352897263