Five principles for studying people's use of heuristics

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serval:BIB_E4D9AF547338
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Five principles for studying people's use of heuristics
Journal
Acta Psychologica Sinica
Author(s)
Marewski J. N., Schooler L. J., Gigerenzer G.
ISSN
0439-755X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
42
Number
1
Pages
72-87
Language
english
Abstract
The fast and frugal heuristics framework assumes that people rely on an adaptive toolbox of simple decision strategies-called heuristics-to make inferences, choices, estimations, and other decisions. Each of these heuristics is tuned to regularities in the structure of the task environment and each is capable of exploiting the ways in which basic cognitive capacities work. In doing so, heuristics enable adaptive behavior. In this article, we give an overview of the framework and formulate five principles that should guide the study of people's adaptive toolbox. We emphasize that models of heuristics should be (i) precisely defined; (ii) tested comparatively; (iii) studied in line with theories of strategy selection; (iv) evaluated by how well they predict new data; and (vi) tested in the real world in addition to the laboratory.
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