Gerd Gigerenzer    
Director
Fon: +49-(0)30-82406-430/460/361
E-mail: sekgigerenzer@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Secretary:  Edda Foellmer-Häusle
Maren Wöll

Dr. phil. in Psychology, 1977, Universität München
Habilitation in Psychology, 1982, Universität München
Fellow of the Max Planck Society
Co-director of the Institute
Professor of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin

» Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Research Interests

  • Models of bounded rationality
  • Social intelligence
  • Ecological rationality
  • Heuristics of scientific discovery
  • Philosophy, history, and methodology of social sciences
Projects

Selected Literature

  • Gigerenzer, G., Mata, J., &Frank, R. (2009). Public knowledge of benefits of breast and prostate cancer screening in Europe. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, doi:10.1093/jnci/djp1237. Abstract: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/djp237; Full Text: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/djp237 ; PDF: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/djp237 .
  • Gigerenzer, G. (2007). Gut feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious. New York: Viking Press.
  • (UK edition: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007)
  • (German translation: Bauchentscheidungen: Die Intelligenz des Unbewussten und die Macht der Intuition. München: Bertelsmann, 2007)
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Brighton, H. (2009). Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 107–143.
  • Gigerenzer, G. (2008). Rationality for mortals: How people cope with uncertainty. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Gigerenzer, G., Gaissmaier, W., Kurz-Milcke, E., Schwartz, L. M., & Woloshin, S. (2007). Helping doctors and patients to make sense of health statistics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8, 53–96.
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Engel, C. (2006). Heuristics and the law. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Gigerenzer, G. , Hertwig, R., van den Broek, E., Fasolo, B., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2005). "A 30% chance of rain tomorrow": How does the public understand probabilistic weather forecast? Risk Analysis, 25, 623-629.
  • Gigerenzer, G. (2002). Calculated risks: How to know when numbers deceive you. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Selten, R. (Eds.). (2001). Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Gigerenzer, G. (2000). Adaptive thinking: Rationality in the real world. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Gigerenzer, G., Todd, P. M., & the ABC Group (1999). Simple heuristics that make us smart. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Goldstein, D. G. (1996). Reasoning the fast and frugal way: Models of bounded rationality. Psychological Review, 103, 650-669.
  • Gigerenzer, G. (1991). From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology. Psychological Review, 98, 254-267.
  • Gigerenzer, G., Swijtink, Z., Porter, T., Daston, L. J., Beatty, J., & Krueger, L. (1989). The empire of chance: How probability changed science and everyday life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • (German: Das Reich des Zufalls: Wissen zwischen Wahrscheinlichkeiten, Häufigkeiten und Unschärfen. Heidelberg: Spektrum, 1999).
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Murray, D. J. (1987). Cognition as intuitive statistics. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
       
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