{"id":451,"date":"2008-09-01T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2008-09-01T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T13:21:00","slug":"gerd-gigerenzer-to-speak-in-london-sept-23rd-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Gerd Gigerenzer to speak in London, Sept 23rd, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

GERD GIGERENZER ON IGNORING INFORMATION FOR BETTER DECISIONS<\/p>\n

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Who: Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
\nWhat: The Rationality of Heuristics: Ignoring Information for Better Decisions
\nWhere: Westminster Business School<\/a>, Hogg Lecture Theatre
\nWhen: 17h15-19h<\/p>\n

The academic year in London will get off to a stimulating start as one of Psychology’s leading intellectuals, Gerd Gigerenzer, will take the stage on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 to kick off the Economics of Behavior and Decision Making seminar in London.<\/p>\n

Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He won the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences. His book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious<\/em><\/a>\"\" was one of six nominees for the 2008 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books. He is the author of Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, the German translation of which won the Scientific Book of the Year Prize in 2002. He has published several other academic books on heuristics including, Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart<\/a>\"\"<\/em> (with Peter Todd & The ABC Research Group) and Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox<\/a>\"\"<\/em> (with Reinhard Selten, a Nobel laureate in economics), Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports)<\/a>\"\"<\/em> (with Christoph Engel), Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (Evolution and Cognition)<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, and Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition Series)<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ABOUT GIGERENZER:
\nGerd Gigerenzer’s CV<\/a>
\nThrough Analysis, Gut Reaction Gains Credibility<\/a>, The New York Times.
\nSmart Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer<\/a> at Edge.org
\nGigerenzer’s Books<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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The full schedule of talks at the Economics of Behaviour and Decision Making seminar series is maintained at http:\/\/www.decisionresearchlab.com\/ebdm\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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