Gerd Gigerenzer: 12 books
Risiko
Wie man die richtigen Entscheidungen trifft
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Der neue Bestseller von Gerd Gigerenzer
Erinnern wir uns an die weltweite Angst vor der Schweinegrippe, als Experten eine nie dagewesene Pandemie prognostizierten und Impfstoff für Millionen produziert wurde, der später still und heimlich entsorgt werden musste. Für Gerd Gigerenzer ist dies...
Calculated Risks
How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities...
Bauchentscheidungen
Die Intelligenz des Unbewussten und die Macht der Intuition
Language: German
Release Date: May 28, 2015
„Das Herz hat seine Gründe, die der Verstand nicht kennt.“ Viele Menschen treffen Entscheidungen „aus dem Bauch heraus“, was auf den ersten Blick aller Vernunft zu widersprechen scheint. Gerd Gigerenzer, Professor für Psychologie und Direktor am Berliner Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung,...
Gut Feelings
The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink.
Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Much better qualified to help us make decisions is the cognitive, emotional,...
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives
In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the...
Rationality for Mortals
How People Cope with Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational...
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Shira Elqayam, Jean Baratgin
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.
This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide...
Simply Rational
Decision Making in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making across the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Collectively, the essays demonstrate why the frame...
Das Einmaleins der Skepsis
Über den richtigen Umgang mit Zahlen und Risiken
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Das provokative Buch eines der renommiertesten deutschen Psychologen ermutigt zur Skepsis gegenüber vermeintlich absoluten Wahrheiten. "Mit seiner Studie über den richtigen Umgang mit Zahlen und Risiken hat Gerd Gigerenzer geradezu ein Manual für die Risikogesellschaft vorgelegt, nach dessen Lektüre...
The Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into...
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless...
by Gerd Gigerenzer, David J. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology. Where theories come from, as opposed to how they become established, was almost a no-man’s land in the history and philosophy of science at the time. The authors argue that in the science of mind, theories are particularly...