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How smart can simple heuristics be?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

Nick Chater
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom nick.chater@warwick.ac.uk
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This commentary focuses on three issues raised by Gigerenzer, Todd, and the ABC Research Group (1999). First, I stress the need for further experimental evidence to determine which heuristics people use in cognitive judgment tasks. Second, I question the scope of cognitive models based on simple heuristics, arguing that many aspects of cognition are too sophisticated to be modeled in this way. Third, I note the complementary role that rational explanation can play to Gigenerenzer et al.'s “ecological” analysis of why heuristics succeed.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press