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104
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World Ranking
505
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Gerd Gigerenzer is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences, with a notable presence in safety research, general decision sciences, information systems and management, economics and econometrics, and management science and operations research.

The scientist has contributed extensively to various research topics including decision-making and behavioral economics, ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, data-driven disease surveillance, child and animal learning development, academic publishing and open access, scientific computing and data management, and economic theories and models.

Frequent coauthors collaborating on publications include Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Florian Artinger, Valerio Capraro, Austin Lentsch, and Daron Acemoğlu.

Research papers by Gerd Gigerenzer cover a range of subjects and publication venues:

  • "The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making", 2024, PNAS Nexus
  • "Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions", 2022, Journal of Economic Literature
  • "Transparent modeling of influenza incidence: Big data or a single data point from psychological theory?", 2021, International Journal of Forecasting
  • "Taking uncertainty seriously: simplicity versus complexity in financial regulation", 2020, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • "Embodied Heuristics", 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Publications frequently appear in venues such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, International Journal of Forecasting, Frontiers in Psychology, and Industrial and Corporate Change.

Gerd Gigerenzer has authored books published by Cambridge University Press and The MIT Press. Notable titles include "The Intelligence of Intuition" (2023), and "Classification in the Wild" (2021).

Recognition within the academic community includes election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2001, particularly in the fields of psychology and cognitive sciences.

Best Publications

  • Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Peter M. Todd

  • Heuristic Decision Making

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Wolfgang Gaissmaier

  • Reasoning the fast and frugal way: models of bounded rationality.

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • How to Improve Bayesian Reasoning Without Instruction: Frequency Formats

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Ulrich Hoffrage

  • Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Reinhard Selten

  • Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

    Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Henry Brighton

  • Models of ecological rationality: the recognition heuristic.

    Daniel G. Goldstein;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Probabilistic mental models: a Brunswikian theory of confidence.

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Ulrich Hoffrage;Heinz Kleinbölting

  • Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World

    Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Zeno G. Swijtink;Theodore M. Porter;Lorraine Daston

  • How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”

    Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Wolfgang Gaissmaier;Elke Kurz-Milcke;Lisa M. Schwartz

  • On Narrow Norms and Vague Heuristics: A Reply to Kahneman and Tversky (1996)

    Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Why Heuristics Work

    Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Bauchentscheidungen: Die Intelligenz des Unbewussten und die Macht der Intuition

    Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Précis of "Simple heuristics that make us smart"

    Peter M. Todd;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Domain-specific reasoning: Social contracts, cheating, and perspective change

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Klaus Hug

  • The Priority Heuristic: Making Choices Without Trade-Offs

    Edouard Brandstätter;Gerd Gigerenzer;Ralph Hertwig

  • Do studies of statistical power have an effect on the power of studies

    Peter Sedlmeier;Gerd Gigerenzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Rocio Garcia-Retamero University of Granada
Peter Sedlmeier
Peter Sedlmeier Chemnitz University of Technology
Markus Raab
Markus Raab German Sport University Cologne
Jörg Rieskamp
Jörg Rieskamp University of Basel
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London

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