Adaptive thinking : rationality in the real world /

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This title is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking to understand how minds cope with their environments.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gigerenzer, Gerd
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:Evolution and cognition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This title is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking to understand how minds cope with their environments.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199849222
0199849226
0198031173
9780198031178