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Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin. He is former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law at the University of Virginia. He is also Batten Fellow at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia, and Fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences. Awards for his work include the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences and the Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the social and behavioral sciences. His award-winning trade books Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You, and Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious were translated into 18 languages. His academic books include Rationality for Mortals, Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart and Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox (with Reinhard Selten, a Nobel Laureate in economics). In Better Doctors, Better Doctors, Better Decisions (with Sir Muir Gray), he shows how better informed doctors and patients can improve healthcare while reducing the costs. Gigerenzer has trained U.S. federal judges, German physicians, and top managers in decision making and understanding risks and uncertainties.
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10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.10363
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10.1136/bmj.f5151
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10.1371/journal.pone.0070769
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10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00646
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10.1177/0956797612447804
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10.7326/0003-4819-156-5-201203060-00005
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10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00764.x
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10.1037/a0025951
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10.3389/fnins.2012.00105
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10.1136/bmj.e245
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10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145346
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10.1037/a0022684
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10.1037/a0020762
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10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00292
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10.1177/0272989X10391469
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10.1136/bmj.d6386
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10.1136/bmj.c4830
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10.1093/jnci/djp237
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10.1111/j.1539-6053.2008.00033.x
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10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00753.x
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10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.409
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10.1016/j.cognition.2004.12.003
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10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00608.x
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10.1016/j.beproc.2005.02.019
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10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.30901.x
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10.1136/bmj.327.7417.741
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10.1016/s0001-6918(02)00046-x
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10.1037//0033-295x.103.4.650
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10.1037/0033-295x.98.2.254
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10.1017/cbo9780511720482
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195153729.001.0001
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