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Gerd Gigerenzer (born September 3, 1947, Wallersdorf, Germany) is a German psychologist, who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is currently director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy,[4] both in Berlin, Germany.

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One is forced to assume that ordinary people have the computational capabilities and statistical software of econometricians.

Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten (2001)

Risk-savvy citizens are indispensable pillars of a society that is ready for positive liberty.

Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions (2014)

Models of bounded rationality describe how a judgement or decision is reached (that is, the heuristic processes or proximal mechanisms) rather than merely the outcome of the decision, and they describe the class of environments in which these heuristics will succeed or fail.

Certainty has become a consumer product. It is marketed the world over–by insurance companies, investment advisers, election campaigns, and the medical industry.

Reckoning with Risk (2003)

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