Mycological rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom foraging
How do mushroom foragers make safe and efficient decisions under uncertainty, or deal with the genuine risks of misidentification and poisoning? This article is an inquiry into ecological rationality, heuristics, perception, and decision-making in mushroom foraging. By surveying 894 Finnish mushroom...
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description | How do mushroom
foragers make safe and efficient decisions under uncertainty, or deal with the
genuine risks of misidentification and poisoning? This article is an inquiry
into ecological rationality, heuristics, perception, and decision-making in
mushroom foraging. By surveying 894 Finnish mushroom foragers, this article
illustrates how socially learned rules of thumb and heuristics are used in
mushroom foraging, and how simple heuristics are often complemented by more
complex and intuitive decision-making. The results illustrate how traditional
foraging cultures have evolved precautionary heuristics to deal with
uncertainties and poisonous species, and how foragers develop selective
attention through experience. The study invites us to consider whether other
human foraging cultures might use heuristics similarly, how and why such
traditions have culturally evolved, and whether early hunter-gatherers might
have used simple heuristics to deal with uncertainty. |
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spelling | doaj.art-87f1f408050049ff8ce86e976e7f63652023-09-02T22:17:39ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752020-09-01155630647Mycological rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom foragingRoope O. KaaronenHow do mushroom foragers make safe and efficient decisions under uncertainty, or deal with the genuine risks of misidentification and poisoning? This article is an inquiry into ecological rationality, heuristics, perception, and decision-making in mushroom foraging. By surveying 894 Finnish mushroom foragers, this article illustrates how socially learned rules of thumb and heuristics are used in mushroom foraging, and how simple heuristics are often complemented by more complex and intuitive decision-making. The results illustrate how traditional foraging cultures have evolved precautionary heuristics to deal with uncertainties and poisonous species, and how foragers develop selective attention through experience. The study invites us to consider whether other human foraging cultures might use heuristics similarly, how and why such traditions have culturally evolved, and whether early hunter-gatherers might have used simple heuristics to deal with uncertainty.http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200330/jdm200330.pdfbounded rationality ecological rationality expertise foraging heuristics mushroom huntingnakeywords |
spellingShingle | Roope O. Kaaronen Mycological rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom foraging Judgment and Decision Making bounded rationality ecological rationality expertise foraging heuristics mushroom huntingnakeywords |
title | Mycological
rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom
foraging |
title_full | Mycological
rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom
foraging |
title_fullStr | Mycological
rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom
foraging |
title_full_unstemmed | Mycological
rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom
foraging |
title_short | Mycological
rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom
foraging |
title_sort | mycological rationality heuristics perception and decision making in mushroom foraging |
topic | bounded rationality ecological rationality expertise foraging heuristics mushroom huntingnakeywords |
url | http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200330/jdm200330.pdf |
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