Simply Rational - Decision Making in the Real World

Informationen zum Autor Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. Klappentext This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making in the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Zusammenfassung This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making in the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Gerd Gigerenzer, Gigerenzer Gerd
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2015
• EAN: 9780199390076
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939007-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Evolution and Cognition Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Social research & statistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Social research and statistics