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Smart people who make simple heuristics work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

Annika Wallin
Affiliation:
Lund University Cognitive Science, Kungshuset, Lundagård, 222 22 Sweden{annika.wallin; peter.gardenfors}@lucs.lu.se www.lucs.lu.se/People/{Annika.Wallin; [email protected]
Peter Gärdenfors
Affiliation:
Lund University Cognitive Science, Kungshuset, Lundagård, 222 22 Sweden{annika.wallin; peter.gardenfors}@lucs.lu.se www.lucs.lu.se/People/{Annika.Wallin; [email protected]

Abstract

To evaluate the success of simple heuristics we need to know more about how a relevant heuristic is chosen and how we learn which cues are relevant. These meta-abilities are at the core of ecological rationality, rather than the individual heuristics.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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