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Out of the theoretical cul-de-sac

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Ralph Hertwig  and
Annika Wallin
Ralph Hertwig*
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195Berlin, Germany
Annika Wallin*
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195Berlin, Germany
*
hertwig@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
wallin@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
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Abstract:

A key premise of the heuristics-and-biases program is that heuristics are “quite useful.” Let us now pay more than lip service to this premise, and analyse the environmental structures that make heuristics more or less useful. Let us also strike from the long list of biases those phenomena that are not biases and explore to what degree those that remain are adaptive or can be understood as by-products of adaptive mechanisms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , June 2004 , pp. 342 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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