The beauty of simple models: Themes in recognition heuristic research

Autor: Daniel G. Goldstein, Gerd Gigerenzer, Julian N. Marewski, Rüdiger F. Pohl, Oliver Vitouch
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Judgment and Decision Making, Vol 6, Pp 392-395 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 19302975
1930-2975
DOI: 10.1017/S1930297500001340
Popis: The advantage of models that do not use flexible parameters is that one can precisely show to what degree they predict behavior, and in what situations. In three issues of this journal, the recognition heuristic has been examined carefully from many points of view. We comment here on four themes, the use of optimization models to understand the rationality of heuristics, the generalization of the recognition input beyond a binary judgment, new conditions for less-is-more effects, and the importance of specifying boundary conditions for cognitive heuristics.
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