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-e6a6436d5dc7485bb03dd7a246ae41352023-09-03T09:20:25ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752020-09-011563064710.1017/S1930297500007841Mycological rationality: Heuristics, perception and decision-making in mushroom foragingRoope O. Kaaronen0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2414-6974University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, Unioninkatu 37, FI-00014, HelsinkiHow 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.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500007841/type/journal_articlebounded rationalityecological rationalityexpertiseforagingheuristicsmushroom hunting |
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| 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 hunting |
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