Environments that make us smart: Ecological rationality

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 167-171

  Todd, Peter M ^a,b   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive toolbox; Bounded rationality; Decision making; Ecological rationality; Environment structure; Simple heuristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250345634     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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