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Bounded rationality, Social intelligence, Risk communication, Decision making under uncertainty

Biography

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.

Activities

Employment (2)

Harding Center for Risk Literacy: Berlin, DE

2008 to present | Director
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Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Berlin, DE

1997 to present (Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition)
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Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology

Perspectives on Psychological Science
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Gerd Gigerenzer
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How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”

Industrial and Corporate Change
2024-07-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Florian M Artinger; Gerd Gigerenzer
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How do narratives relate to heuristics?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Gerd Gigerenzer
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Heterogeneity of rules in Bayesian reasoning: A toolbox analysis

Cognitive Psychology
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Jan K. Woike; Ralph Hertwig; Gerd Gigerenzer
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Fake Publications in Biomedical Science: Red-flagging Method Indicates Mass Production

2023-05-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Bernhard A. Sabel; Emely Knaack; Gerd Gigerenzer; Mirela Bilc
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Dynamic, Interactive Trees and Icon Arrays for Visualizing Risks in Civic Statistics

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Laura Martignon; Daniel Frischemeier; Michelle McDowell; Christoph Till
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We need to think more about how we conduct research

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Gerd Gigerenzer
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Using variation between countries to estimate demand for Cochrane reviews when access is free: a cost–benefit analysis

BMJ Open
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Perke Jacobs; Gerd Gigerenzer
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Do children have Bayesian intuitions?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2021-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Gerd Gigerenzer; Jan Multmeier; Andrea Föhring; Odette Wegwarth
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Less can be more: How to make operations more flexible and robust with fewer resources

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
2018-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Çağrı Haksöz; Konstantinos Katsikopoulos; Gerd Gigerenzer
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Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: evaluation of what physicians tell their patients about screening harms.

2013-12 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.10363

PMID:

24145597

Contributors: Wegwarth O; Gigerenzer G
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Gerd Gigerenzer via Europe PubMed Central

Five year survival rates can mislead.

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1136/bmj.f548

PMID:

23360815

Contributors: Gigerenzer G; Wegwarth O
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HIV screening: helping clinicians make sense of test results to patients.

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1136/bmj.f5151

PMID:

23965510

Contributors: Gigerenzer G
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Psychological traces of China's socio-economic reforms in the ultimatum and dictator games.

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0070769

PMID:

23967102

PMC:

PMC3743878

Contributors: Zhu L; Gigerenzer G; Huangfu G
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Gerd Gigerenzer via Europe PubMed Central

Testing process predictions of models of risky choice: a quantitative model comparison approach.

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00646

PMID:

24151472

PMC:

PMC3784771

Contributors: Pachur T; Hertwig R; Gigerenzer G; Brandstätter E
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Gerd Gigerenzer via Europe PubMed Central

9/11, act II: a fine-grained analysis of regional variations in traffic fatalities in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

2012-12 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/0956797612447804

PMID:

23160203

Contributors: Gaissmaier W; Gigerenzer G
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Gerd Gigerenzer via Europe PubMed Central

Do physicians understand cancer screening statistics? A national survey of primary care physicians in the United States.

2012-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.7326/0003-4819-156-5-201203060-00005

PMID:

22393129

Contributors: Wegwarth O; Schwartz LM; Woloshin S; Gaissmaier W; Gigerenzer G
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Heuristic decision making in medicine.

2012-03 | Journal article
PMID:

22577307

PMC:

PMC3341653

Contributors: Marewski JN; Gigerenzer G
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Symptom recognition of heart attack and stroke in nine European countries: a representative survey.

2012-03 | Journal article
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10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00764.x

PMID:

22390229

Contributors: Mata J; Frank R; Gigerenzer G
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The hot hand exists in volleyball and is used for allocation decisions.

2012-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1037/a0025951

PMID:

22004053

Contributors: Raab M; Gula B; Gigerenzer G
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Cognitive Processes in Decisions Under Risk are not the Same as in Decisions Under Uncertainty.

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.3389/fnins.2012.00105

PMID:

22807893

PMC:

PMC3395005

Contributors: Volz KG; Gigerenzer G
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Why do single event probabilities confuse patients?

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1136/bmj.e245

PMID:

22236599

Contributors: Gigerenzer G; Galesic M
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Heuristic Decision Making

2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145346

Part of ISSN:

0066-4308

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A signal-detection analysis of fast-and-frugal trees.

2011-04 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1037/a0022684

PMID:

21381858

Contributors: Luan S; Schooler LJ; Gigerenzer G
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Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles.

2011-01 | Journal article
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10.1037/a0020762

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21244188

Contributors: Kruglanski AW; Gigerenzer G
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Behavioral inconsistencies do not imply inconsistent strategies.

2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00292

PMID:

22110447

PMC:

PMC3216014

Contributors: Hertwig R; Gigerenzer G
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Deceiving numbers: survival rates and their impact on doctors' risk communication.

2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/0272989X10391469

PMID:

21191123

Contributors: Wegwarth O; Gaissmaier W; Gigerenzer G
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The recognition heuristic: a review of theory and tests.

2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00147

PMID:

21779266

PMC:

PMC3132682

Contributors: Pachur T; Todd PM; Gigerenzer G; Schooler LJ; Goldstein DG
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Gerd Gigerenzer via Europe PubMed Central

What are natural frequencies?

2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1136/bmj.d6386

PMID:

22006953

Contributors: Gigerenzer G
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Misleading communication of risk.

2010 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1136/bmj.c4830

PMID:

20940219

Contributors: Gigerenzer G; Wegwarth O; Feufel M
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Public knowledge of benefits of breast and prostate cancer screening in Europe.

2009-09 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1093/jnci/djp237

PMID:

19671770

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PMC2736294

Contributors: Gigerenzer G; Mata J; Frank R
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Rationality for mortals

2008 | Book
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Gerd Gigerenzer

Gut Feelings

2007 | Book
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Gerd Gigerenzer

Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics

2007 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1539-6053.2008.00033.x

Part of ISSN:

1529-1006

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Heuristics and the law

2006 | Edited book
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Gerd Gigerenzer

Out of the frying pan into the fire: behavioral reactions to terrorist attacks.

2006-04 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00753.x

PMID:

16573625

Contributors: Gigerenzer G
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The priority heuristic: making choices without trade-offs.

2006-04 | Journal article
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10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.409

PMID:

16637767

PMC:

PMC2891015

Contributors: Brandstätter E; Gigerenzer G; Hertwig R
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Children can solve Bayesian problems: the role of representation in mental computation.

2006-01 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.cognition.2004.12.003

PMID:

16399266

Contributors: Zhu L; Gigerenzer G
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"A 30% chance of rain tomorrow": how does the public understand probabilistic weather forecasts?

2005-06 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00608.x

PMID:

16022695

Contributors: Gigerenzer G; Hertwig R; van den Broek E; Fasolo B; Katsikopoulos KV
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Simple heuristics and rules of thumb: where psychologists and behavioural biologists might meet.

2005-05 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.beproc.2005.02.019

PMID:

15845293

Contributors: Hutchinson JM; Gigerenzer G
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Why does framing influence judgment?

2003-11 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.30901.x

PMID:

14687283

PMC:

PMC1494941

Contributors: Gigerenzer G
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Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight.

2003-09 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1136/bmj.327.7417.741

PMID:

14512488

PMC:

PMC200816

Contributors: Gigerenzer G; Edwards A
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Calculated risks

2002 | Book
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Gerd Gigerenzer

G. Gigerenzer (2000). Adaptive thinking. Rationality in the Real World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2002 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/s0001-6918(02)00046-x

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0001-6918

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Bounded rationality

2001 | Book
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Gerd Gigerenzer

Reasoning the fast and frugal way: Models of bounded rationality.

1996 | Journal article
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10.1037//0033-295x.103.4.650

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0033-295X

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Reasoning the fast and frugal way: Models of bounded rationality.

Psychological Review
1996-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Gerd Gigerenzer; Daniel G. Goldstein
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From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology.

1991 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1037/0033-295x.98.2.254

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1939-1471

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The Empire of Chance

1989 | Book
DOI:

10.1017/cbo9780511720482

ISBN:

9780511720482

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Adaptive Thinking

Book
DOI:

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195153729.001.0001

ISBN:

9780195153729

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