Environments that make us smart: Ecological rationality (2007)
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Abstract
Traditional views of rationality posit general-purpose decision mechanisms based on logic or optimization. The study of ecological rationality focuses on uncovering the ‘‘adaptive toolbox’’ of domain-specific simple heuristics that real, computationally bounded minds employ,and explaining how these heuristics produce accurate decisions by exploiting the structures of information in the environments in which they are applied. Knowing when and how people use particular heuristics can facilitate the shaping of environments to engender better decisions.
Bibliographic entry
Todd, P. M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2007). Environments that make us smart: Ecological rationality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 167-171. (Full text)
Miscellaneous
| Publication year | 2007 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
| External URL: | http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/pt/PT_Environments_2007.pdf View | |
| Categories: | Ecological RationalityBounded RationalityEnvironment StructureAdaptive Toolbox | |
| Keywords: | adaptive toolboxbounded rationalitydecision makingecological rationalityenvironment structuresimple heuristics |