Gerd gigerenzer daniel kahneman biography

German cognitive psychologist

Gerd Gigerenzer (born 3 September 1947) is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development,^[1] Berlin, director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy,^[2] University of Potsdam, and vice president of the European Research Council (ERC).^[3]

Gigerenzer investigates how humans make inferences about their world with limited time and knowledge.

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He proposes that, in an uncertain world, probability theory is not sufficient; people also use smart heuristics, that is, rules of thumb. He conceptualizes rational decisions in terms of the adaptive toolbox (the repertoire of heuristics an individual or institution has) and the ability to choose a good heuristics for the task at hand.

A heuristic is called ecologically ra Heuristik sosial - Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas MEFA