Why recognition is rational: Optimality results on single-variable decision rules

The Recognition Heuristic (Gigerenzer & Goldstein, 1996; Goldstein & Gigerenzer, 2002) makes the counter-intuitive prediction that a decision maker utilizing less information may do as well as, or outperform, an idealized decision maker utilizing more information. We lay a theoretical founda...

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Main Authors: Clintin P. Davis-Stober, Jason Dana, David V. Budescu, Julian N. Marewski, Rüdiger F. Pohl, Oliver Vitouch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010-07-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500003478/type/journal_article