Adaptive Thinking

Rationality in the Real World

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

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Paperback | 1 March 2002

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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 where the laws of logic and probability reign, and places it into our real world of human behavior and interaction. Adaptive Thinking is accessibly written for general readers with an interest in psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and animal behavior. It also teaches a practical audience, such as physicians, AIDS counselors, and experts in criminal law, how to understand and communicate uncertainties and risks.

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"The entire book skillfully conveys a number of messages at different levels. It would be impossible to identify one message that takes precedence over the others, although part V of the book clearly stands in its own right. Gigerenzer draws together the different programmes of work and successfully achieves his objective of presenting a different story about reasoning, a story that is stimulating and inspiring."--Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Social Theory Social Psychology Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence

Evolution and Cognition	p. ii
Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Where Do New Ideas Come From?	p. 1
From Tools to Theories	p. 3
Mind as Computer the Social Origin of a Metaphor	p. 26
Ideas in Exile the Struggles of an Upright Man	p. 44
Ecological Rationality	p. 57
Ecological Intelligence	p. 59
Conclusions	p. 76
Aids Counseling for Low-Risk Clients	p. 77
How to Improve Bayesian Reasoning Without Instruction	p. 92
Bounded Rationality	p. 125
Probabilistic Mental Models	p. 129
Conclusions	p. 164
Social Rationality	p. 199
Rationality Why Social Context Matters	p. 201
Conclusions	p. 209
Domain-Specific Reasoning Social Contracts and Cheating Detection	p. 211
the Modularity of Social Intelligence	p. 234
Cognitive Illusions and Statistical Rituals	p. 237
How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear	p. 241
The Superego, the Ego, and the Id in Statistical Reasoning	p. 267
Surrogates for Theories	p. 289
References	p. 297
Name Index	p. 329
Subject Index	p. 337
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