Ecological rationality : intelligence in the world / edited by Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Todd, Peter M.

Gigerenzer, Gerd.

Series:

Evolution and cognition.

Evolution and cognition series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental psychology.

Heuristic.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors explore rationality as a match between mind & environment. Intelligent behaviour comes about by exploiting reliable structure in the world & hence some of the intelligence is in the world itself.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; The ABC Research Group; Part I: The Research Agenda; 1 What Is Ecological Rationality?; Part II: Uncertainty in the World; 2 How Heuristics Handle Uncertainty; 3 When Simple Is Hard to Accept; 4 Rethinking Cognitive Biases as Environmental Consequences; Part III: Correlations Between Recognition and the World; 5 When Is the Recognition Heuristic an Adaptive Tool?; 6 How Smart Forgetting Helps Heuristic Inference; 7 How Groups Use Partial Ignorance to Make Good Decisions; Part IV: Redundancy and Variability in the World

8 Redundancy: Environment Structure That Simple Heuristics Can Exploit9 The Quest for Take-the-Best: Insights and Outlooks From Experimental Research; 10 Efficient Cognition Through Limited Search; 11 Simple Rules for Ordering Cues in One-Reason Decision Making; Part V: Rarity and Skewness in the World ; 12 Why Rare Things Are Precious: How Rarity Benefits Inference; 13 Ecological Rationality for Teams and Committees: Heuristics in Group Decision Making; 14 Naïve, Fast, and Frugal Trees for Classification; 15 How Estimation Can Benefit From an Imbalanced World; Part VI: Designing the World

16 Designed to Fit Minds: Institutions and Ecological Rationality17 Designing Risk Communication in Health; 18 Car Parking as a Game Between Simple Heuristics; Part VII: Afterword; 19 Ecological Rationality: The Normative Study of Heuristics; References; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 16, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-971794-X

1-280-49878-1

9786613594013

OCLC:

786258327