Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

Book Overview

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 than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research program.

This volume (which follows on a previous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195328981
• ISBN13: 9780195328981
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"