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Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences
2009
Topics in Cognitive Science
Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes that ignore information. In contrast to the widely held view that less processing reduces accuracy, the study of heuristics shows that less information, computation, and time can in fact improve accuracy. We review the major progress made so far: (a) the discovery of less-is-more effects; (b) the study of the ecological rationality of heuristics, which examines in which environments a given strategy succeeds or fails, and why; (c) an advancement from
doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2008.01006.x
pmid:25164802
fatcat:6ejkxm3djvb27fnaw7nmns2c2i