Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

Books by this Author

Classification in the Wild
The Science and Art of Transparent Decision Making
By Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Özgür Şimşek, Marcus Buckmann, Gerd Gigerenzer
This book focuses on classification—allocating objects into categories—“in the wild,” in real-world situations and far from the certainty of the lab. In the wild, unlike in typical psychological experiments, the future is not knowable and uncertainty cannot be meaningfully reduced to probability. Connecting the science of heuristics with machine learning, the book shows...

Books by this Editor

Bounded Rationality
The Adaptive Toolbox
Edited By Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten
In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and unlimited time. About forty years ago, Herbert Simon challenged this view...

Journal Articles by this Author

Why You Think Milan is Larger than Modena: Neural Correlates of the Recognition Heuristic
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Volume 18, Issue 11 (November 2006)
By Kirsten G. Volz, Lael J. Schooler, Ricarda I. Schubotz, Markus Raab, Gerd Gigerenzer, D. Yves von Cramon