Adaptive thinking rationality in the real world

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 propose...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gigerenzer, Gerd (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press c2000.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Evolution and cognition.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798512006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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