Ecological Rationality - Intelligence in the World (Hardcover)

"More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one or a few important cues and ignoring the rest, and shortcutting computation rather than striving for as much as possible. In this book, we argue that in an uncertain world, more information and computation are not always better, and we ask when, and why, less can be more. The answers to these questions constitute the idea of ecological rationality: how we are able to achieve intelligence in the world by using simple heuristics matched to the environments we face, exploiting the structures inherent in our physical, biological, social, and cultural surroundings.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	April 2012
Authors:	Peter M. Todd • Gerd Gigerenzer
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	608
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-531544-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN:	0-19-531544-8
Barcode:	9780195315448

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