Simply Rational Decision Making in the Real World

by Gigerenzer, Gerd

ISBN13:
9780190240684
ISBN10:
0190240687
Format: eBook
Copyright: 2015-03-31
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.

Introduction
1. How I Got Started Teaching Physicians and Judges Risk Literacy

Part I. The Art of Risk Communication
2. Why Do Single Event Probabilities Confuse Patients?
3. HIV Screening: Helping Clinicians Make Sense of Test Results
4. Breast Cancer Screening Pamphlets Mislead Women

Part II. Health Statistics
5. Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics
6. Public Knowledge of Benefits of Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening in Europe

Part III. Smart Heuristics
7. Heuristic Decision Making
8. The Recognition Heuristic: A Decade of Research

Part IV. Intuitions about Sports and Gender
9. The Hot Hand Exists in Volleyball and Is Used for Allocation Decisions
10. Stereotypes about Men's and Women's Intuitions: A Study of Two Nations

Part V. Theory
11. As-If Behavioral Economics: Neoclassical Economics in Disguise?
12. Personal Reflections on Theory and Psychology

References
Index

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