Towards competitive instead of biased testing of heuristics: A reply to Hilbig and Richter (2011)

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 197-205

  Brighton, Henry ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biased testing; Homo heuristicus; Recognition heuristic; Simple heuristics

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION;

COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79951599479     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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