Homo heuristicus Outnumbered: Comment on Gigerenzer and Brighton (2009)

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-196

  Hilbig, Benjamin E ^a   Richter, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive toolbox; Fast and frugal heuristics; Formal modeling; Multinomial processing tree model; Recognition heuristic

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 79951626822     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01123.x     Document Type: Article

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