Why Heuristics Work

By Gerd Gigerenzer. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2008

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

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Domain-general problem solving skills and education in the 21st century (2014, background): “It further includes aspects of self-regulation (Wirth & Leutner, 2008) and the use of heuristics (Gigerenzer, 2008).”
Recipient design in human communication: simple heuristics or perspective taking? (2012, background): “Such a heuristic model does not obviously scale to situations of real-world complexity with more than a few possible cues (cf. Gigerenzer, 2008), because an exponential number of rules either needs astronomical amounts of space to be stored, or—if the list of rules is stored in compressed form—it…”
Toward a benefit-cost theory or survey participation: Evidence, further tests, and implications (2011, background): “Sometimes the process of reaching a decision is painfully reasoned, and sometimes it proceeds almost instantaneously, with the help of heuristics (e.g., Gigerenzer 2008).”
How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters (2011, background): “Heuristics are fast and simple cognitive procedures that are often used when decisions have to be made under time pressure or overwhelming information (13, 14).”
From Mate Retention to Murder: Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men's Partner-Directed Violence (2009, background): “…(Kruger, 2003; Stewart-Williams, 2008), conflict and violence (Archer, 2006b; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Wilson & Daly, 1998), decision making (Cosmides & Tooby, 1992; Gigerenzer, 2008), interpersonal relationships (Ackerman & Kenrick, 2008), and mating (Buss, 2000; Shackelford, Schmitt, & Buss, 2005).”
Development and Validation of a New Measure of Intuition: The Types of Intuition Scale (2014, background): “Researchers have emphasized its limitations (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974) as well as its strengths (Gigerenzer, 2008).”
Fast and frugal heuristics: Tools of social rationality. (2009, positive): “To do this successfully, the organisms need to use strategies that, above all, successfully predict the future, but do not necessarily best explain the past (Gigerenzer, 2008).”
Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making (2015, methodology): “Unlike statistical optimization procedures, [they] do not try to optimize (i.e., find the best solution), but rather satisfice (i.e., find a good-enough solution) . . . choosing the first option that exceeds an aspiration level” (Gigerenzer, 2008: 20).”
Efficiency of learning vs. processing: Towards a normative theory of multitasking (2020, background): “Theories of bounded rationality (Simon, 1955, 1982; Gigerenzer, 2008) assume that suboptimalities in human behavior arise from the use of heuristics rather than full deliberation, given the bounds of limited multitasking capacity and limited available information.”