Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, and vice president of the European Research Council (ERC).
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- Born in
- Wallersdorf
- Educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- 🏆 Communicator Prize🏆 German Psychology Award🏆 AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research🏆 Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society🏆 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Daniel Goldstein📖 Berna Kiliç Eden
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1947
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