Person/Gerd Gigerenzer

• Gerd Gigerenzer

  • German psychologist, born 3 September 1947 in Wallersdorf, emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam.[1]
  • Studies bounded rationality and heuristics: how people infer and decide with limited time and knowledge.[1]
  • Co-author, with Peter M. Todd and the ABC Research Group, of Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Oxford University Press, 1999), on fast and frugal heuristics as a model of bounded rationality: Satis/fice.[2]

  • Footnotes

    • [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Gigerenzer

    • [2] https://books.google.com/books/about/Simple_Heuristics_that_Make_Us_Smart.html?id=9RNF8TUmRywC