Gerd Gigerenzer

Born

in Wallersdorf, Germany

September 03, 1947

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Genre

Nonfiction, Psychology

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Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making, especially in medicine. A critic of the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, he argues that heuristics should not lead us to conceive of human thinking as riddled with irrational cognitive biases, but rather to conceive rationality as an adaptive tool that is not identical to the rules of formal logic or the probability calculus.

Gerd Gigerenzer ist ein deutscher Psychologe und seit 1997 Direktor der Abteilung „Adaptives Verhalten und Kognition“ und seit 2009 Direktor des Harding-Zentrum für Risikokompetenz, beide am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin. Er ist mit Lorraine Daston verheiratet.

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	Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious 3.68 avg rating — 1,684 ratings — published 2007 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions 4.02 avg rating — 1,007 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You 3.98 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd , ABC Research Group 3.68 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox 3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition Series) 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life by Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink , Theodore Porter 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fast and Frugal Heuristics: Theory, Tests, and Applications by Gerd Gigerenzer, Ralph Hertwig , Thorsten Pachur 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020 by Gerd Gigerenzer (Editor), J.A. Muir Gray (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

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“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

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“cognitive illusions are difficult to overcome. That is why education of the public is doomed to fail and paternalistic strategies to maneuver people into doing the “right” things are the only viable alternative.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

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