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	Lisa Bortolotti reviews Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World by Gerd Gigerenzer
		Gigerenzer wants to develop an alternative view of human rationality and scientific methodology that is sensitive to the important relation between human agents and the natural and social environment in which they operate.
		According to Gigerenzer, we manage to make choices and solve problems by adopting some simple heuristics that fit the structure of the environment in which we live and the kind of choice or task with which we are faced.
		Gigerenzer is not alone in urging us to take seriously the adaptive nature of human reasoning, but he is one of the few who has the courage to envisage an entire new framework.
	human-nature.com /nibbs/02/thinking.html (1361 words)

	PSY: Lisa Bortolotti reviews Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World by Gerd Gigerenzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gigerenzer wants to develop an alternative view of human rationality and scientific methodology that is sensitive to the important relation between human agents and the natural and social environment in which they operate.
		According to Gigerenzer, we manage to make choices and solve problems by adopting some simple heuristics that fit the structure of the environment in which we live and the kind of choice or task with which we are faced.
		Gigerenzer is not alone in urging us to take seriously the adaptive nature of human reasoning, but he is one of the few who has the courage to envisage an entire new framework.
	www.wetheliving.com /pipermail/psychology/2002-December/000250.html (1352 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Gut Feelings, by Gerd Gigerenzer, Hardcover
		Gigerenzer's theories about the usefulness of mental shortcuts were a small but crucial element of Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink,and that attention has provided the psychologist, who is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the opportunity to recast his academic research for a general audience.
		Gigerenzer draws on his own research as well as that of other psychologists to show how even experts rely on intuition to shape their judgment, going so far as to ignore available data in order to make snap decisions.
		Gerd Gigerenzer is director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Plank Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780670038633&itm=1 (823 words)

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	Earl Hunt reviews Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World by Gerd Gigerenzer
		Gigerenzer concludes that when people are asked to judge “probabilities” in situations like these they rightly refuse to adopt a frequentist interpretation.
		Although Gigerenzer’s main argument is with theories of decision making, at various places in his book he broadens the attack to include arguments about the very way that theories are generated in modern social sciences.
		Gigerenzer (once again echoing many others) also objects to what he sees as the unvarying formalistic approach to thought that computer modeling is said to engender.
	www.human-nature.com /ep/reviews/ep01172187.html (6795 words)

	Gerd Gigerenzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gerd Gigerenzer has worked in many areas, from the history of probability theory and statistical inference to deductive reasoning in social contexts, but is perhaps best known for his theoretical and empirical work on judgment under uncertainty, and for his recent focus on applying evolutionary perspectives to cognitive science and decision-making.
		His theoretical analyses have led to a reevaluation of the traditional cognitive practice of defining human rationality as a strict adherence to existing normative theories drawn from mathematics and logic, especially when applied without an analysis of the structure of the domain to which they are applied.
		The work Gigerenzer will be talking about on Wednesday goes well beyond the prior research that demonstrated that people are good at solving Bayesian reasoning problems when asked to reason about event frequencies.
	www.anth.ucsb.edu /projects/esm/GerdGigerenzer.html (321 words)

	Gerd Gigerenzer - Curriculum Vitae - MPIB - Berlin - 18.09.2007 - 16:37:17 (CET)
		Gigerenzer, G. On narrow norms and vague heuristics: A reply to Kahneman and Tversky (1996).
		Gigerenzer, G. Why the distinction between single-event probabilities and frequencies is important for psychology (and vice versa).
		Gigerenzer, G. On the role of probability in psychology: L. Thurstone's solution to the problem of measurement and its impact on psychological research today.
	mpibweb.mpib-berlin.mpg.de /curriculum_vitae/lang/en/id_name/gigerenzer/index.mpi (6366 words)

	New Statesman - You've nothing to fear but fear itself
		Gerd Gigerenzer is good on how the presentation of statistics can distort our perception of risk and increase unnecessary anxieties about everything from breast cancer to "wife-battering".
		Gigerenzer is concerned about how we are bombarded with warnings based on relative rather than absolute risks.
		Gigerenzer suggests that we do not understand percentage analysis because, as a result of our long evolutionary history, "our minds are adapted to natural frequencies", in the same way that "rats are able to 'count' up to about 16".
	www.newstatesman.com /200207220039 (818 words)

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		GIGERENZER, GERD: Ideas in exile: The struggles of an upright man. In: Hammond, K. Stewart (Hg.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 445-452.
		GIGERENZER, GERD, McCabe, K. A., Ockenfels, A., Young, H. P., Henrich, J., Albers, W., Boyd, R.: What is the role of culture in bounded rationality?.
		GIGERENZER, GERD, Selten, R. (Hg.): Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
	www.bbaw.de /pbl/gigerenzergerd2001.html (288 words)

	Edge: SMART HEURISTICS
		Gigerenzer provides an alternative to the view of the mind as a cognitive optimizer, and also to its mirror image, the mind as a cognitive miser.
		Gigerenzer's work is of importance to people interested in how the human mind actually solves problems.
		—JB GIGERENZER is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/gigerenzer03/gigerenzer_index.html (685 words)

	Oliver Curry reviews Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten.
		Enter Gerd Gigerenzer who, for the past decade, has been developing the biological model of 'reasoning' in the hope of weaning economists and others off the 'rational actor' model.
		Gigerenzer (and co-editor Reinhard Selten) illustrate what they call the 'fast and frugal' approach to rationality with the following example.
		Gigerenzer and his research group have successfully identified several of the major types of decision rules that organisms employ, shown that these decision rules work well on a range of problems, and demonstrated that 'real' people actually use these rules to make decisions (including the gaze heuristic).
	human-nature.com /nibbs/03/selten.html (1180 words)

	Short Takes - The Boston Globe
		Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, describes "how the mind adapts and economizes by relying on the unconscious, on rules of thumb, and on evolved capacities." He locates specific strategies that the unconscious mind uses to solve problems.
		In short chapters, using vivid examples and ordinary language, Gigerenzer explains how an outfielder catches a fly ball not by complex calculations but by unconsciously adjusting his running speed so that the angle of his gaze at the ball remains constant.
		After giving many memorable examples of intuitive intelligence, Gigerenzer concludes, "There are many good reasons to trust your gut." While this conclusion is useful, it is the specific examples that the mind (conscious and unconscious) will take away from this clever book.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2007/07/22/short_takes_boston_globe (532 words)

	Gerd Gigernzer
		Gerd Gigerenzer is tireless in examining numbers as a human creation.
		Gigerenzer's main thrust is that humans did not evolve in the psychology laboratory, with good command of probability theory to help them work on word problems.
		Gigerenzer looks at the history of decision research, and offers a concrete and predictive program for the study of human rationality.
	www.statlit.org /Gigerenzer.htm (2278 words)

	- Psychologie Gefühle Bücher, Gerd Gigerenzer: Bauchentscheidungen, Safi Nidiaye: Wieder fühlen lernen
		Psychologie Gefühle Bücher, Gerd Gigerenzer: Bauchentscheidungen, Safi Nidiaye: Wieder fühlen lernen
		Gerd Gigerenzer ist einer der renommiertesten deutschen Psychologen der Gegenwart.
		Dabei ist weniger laut Gigerenzer oft mehr: weniger Wissen kann zu besseren (Bauch-)Entscheidungen führen."
	www.livretto.ch /seiten/psychologie/gefuehle.php (1582 words)

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		Gigerenzer, Selten, and Hild will present the results of this fellowship in two academic papers, a practitioner paper, and a CD-ROM that will present both the ideas and methods discussed in the papers as well as video interviews with Gigerenzer, Selten, Hild, and Darden faculty.
		Gerd Gigerenzer is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and professor of psychology at the Free University of Berlin.
		Gigerenzer is a fellow of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
	www.darden.virginia.edu /batten/fellows/default.aspx?stage=ind&id=39 (494 words)

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	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Aventis science prize 2003 - Gigerenzer
		But, as Gerd Gigerenzer explores in Reckoning With Risk, many of the accepted conventions of modern times are built on somewhat shaky foundations.
		It is Gigerenzer's thesis that this day has already arrived and it is time we all mastered statistical thinking.
		Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3020028.stm (326 words)

	Medical College of Wisconsin - November 2003 Book of the Month
		But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics.
		Gigerenzer reports a study in which doctors were told the results of breast cancer screenings and then were asked to explain the risks of contracting breast cancer to a woman who received a positive result from a screening.
		Gerd Gigerenzer is director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
	www.mcw.edu /display/router.asp?docid=1860 (569 words)

	Ending the Rationality Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When applied to cognitive mechanisms, Gigerenzer's accuracy-based criterion for epistemic evaluation bears an intimate relationship to the reliabilist tradition in epistemology according to which (very roughly) a cognitive mechanism is rational just in case it tends to produce true beliefs and avoid producing false ones (Goldman 1986; Nozick 1993).
		In contrast with psychologists in the heuristics and biases tradition, Gigerenzer has urged that probability theory ought to be given a frequentist interpretation according to which probabilities are construed as relative frequencies of events in one class to events in another.
		Gigerenzer clearly thinks that this conclusion can be put to work in order to dismantle part of the evidential base for the claim that human judgments and reasoning mechanisms violate appropriate norms.
	ruccs.rutgers.edu /ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/Publications/Wars/wars.html (12492 words)

	Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We posed this question to students at the University of Munich and the University of Chicago (Goldstein and Gigerenzer, in press).
		In this talk, I will report about experimental, simulation, and analytical studies of the recognition heuristic and other fast and frugal heuristics, about competitions with computationally expensive methods such as multiple regression and Bayesian networks, and on applications such as how well fast and frugal heuristics do in the stock market.
		Gigerenzer, G., Todd, P. and the ABC Group (in press).
	www.virginia.edu /philosophy/uvachi/gerdpap.htm (1578 words)

	Before Gladwell Blinked, This Guy Followed Gut \| The New York Observer
		Gerd Gigerenzer, a director of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, maintains that gut feelings, partial ignorance and selective forgetting are more important in making rapid decisions than a wealth of information and rigorous logic.
		Gigerenzer’s analysis of how the decision-making process often works, the author seems a bit too enamored of the benefits of rules of thumb over more deliberative, logic-dependent decision making.
		Gerd Gigerenzer may be right to mock the man who writes out a list of a woman’s attributes before deciding to marry her, but one can only wonder how different things would be if America’s voters had been equally deliberative in 2004.
	www.observer.com /2007/gladwell-blinked-guy-followed-gut (638 words)

	GUT FEELINGS - Gerd Gigerenzer - Penguin Books
		Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink.
		Drawing on a decade of research at the Max Plank Institute, Gigerenzer demonstrates that our gut feelings are actually the result of unconscious mental processes—processes that apply rules of thumb that we’ve derived from our environment and prior experiences.
		Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, locates specific strategies that the unconscious mind uses to solve problems.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670038633,00.html (480 words)

	Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
		This is the unedited précis of a book that is being accorded BBS multiple book review (Copyright 1999: Cambridge University Press U.K..) The précis is for inspection only, to help prospective book reviewers decide whether or not they wish to prepare a formal review.
		Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and other institutions.
		Gigerenzer, G. On narrow norms and vague heuristics: A reply to Kahneman and Tversky.
	www.bbsonline.org /documents/a/00/00/04/69/bbs00000469-00/bbs.todd.html (14898 words)

	Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight -- Gigerenzer and Edwards 327 (7417): 741 -- BMJ
		Hoffrage U, Gigerenzer G. Using natural frequencies to improve diagnostic inferences.
		Gigerenzer G. Reckoning with risk: learning to live with uncertainty.
		Gigerenzer G, Todd PM, the ABC Research Group.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/327/7417/741 (2750 words)

	Das Einmaleins der Skepsis (Gerd Gigerenzer ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eine richtige Diagnose ist in diesem Fall sogar unwahrscheinlich, behauptet Gerd Gigerenzer und beweist diese Aussage mit einer Berechnung von unschlagbarer Klarheit.
		Doch Gigerenzer, Psychologe und Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Bildungsforschung, durchleuchtet hier konkret typische Fehler anhand von Beispielen und gibt Denkhilfen, mit denen man künftig die Zahlenspielereien richtig deuten kann.
		Gigerenzers Argumentation ist stets anschaulich und gut verständlich.
	www.tp-buch.de /189304-189305-allgemein/info-3833300418/Das_Einmaleins_der_Skepsis.html (673 words)

	Oxford University Press: Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart: Gerd Gigerenzer
		Here, Gigerenzer, Todd, and their lively research group show that simple heuristics are powerful tools that do surprisingly well.
		"Gigerenzer & Todd's volume represents a major advance in our understanding of human reasoning, with many genuinely new ideas on how people think and an impressive body of data to back them up.
		Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer is the Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
	www.oup-usa.org /isbn/0195143817.html (889 words)

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