Gut Feelings - Shorts Cuts to Better Decision Making

Informationen zum Autor Gerd Gigerenzer Klappentext Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He has published two academic books on heuristics, Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart and Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox and Reckoning with Risk . Zusammenfassung A sportsman can catch a ball without calculating its speed or distance. A group of amateurs beat the experts at playing stock market. A man falls for right woman even though she's 'wrong' on paper. All these people succeeded by trusting their instincts - but how does it work? This title reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making.

Product details

• Authors: Gerd Gigerenzer, Gigerenzer Gerd
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780141015910
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101591-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, Decision theory: general