Evolution and Cognition Series

by Gerd Gigerenzer

Book Overview

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social.

Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195153723
• ISBN13: 9780195153729
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.9"