Gigerenzer,G.

Reviews the book, Guts vs. brains--A review of gut feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer (2007). The authors reviews evidence accumulated over the past few years suggesting the robustness of this approach for explaining aspects of judgment and behaviour. The book is a layperson's guide to recent research--the new departure is to link heuristics to the unconscious. Gigerenzer suggests that gut feelings or intuitions arise precisely through the unconscious use of heuristics or rules of thumb. Throughout the book, Gigerenzer cites evidence that instinctive responding on the basis of simple rules-of-thumb is adaptive and urges us to trust our intuitions. In general, his approach is very uncompromising--perhaps recognizing that extreme positions are more likely to provoke debate than more moderate ones. The book describes many examples of this, such as when physicians in a Michigan hospital found that a simple computer-based heuristic outperformed a more complex 'rational' model in deciding which patients to admit to the intensive care unit. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Gigerenzer, G. (2007). Gut feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious. New York: Viking Press.International editions(audio book: Tantor Media, 2007)(UK edition: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007)(German translation: Bauchentscheidungen: Die Intelligenz des Unbewussten und die Macht der Intuition. München: Bertelsmann, 2007)(Dutch translation: De kracht van je intuitie. Kosmos, 2007)(ebook: Kindle edition, 2008)(Spanish translation: Decisiones instintivas: La inteligencia del inconsciente. Barcelona: Ariel, 2008)(Croatian translation: Snaga intuicije: Inteligencija nesvjesnog. Algoritam, 2008)(Italian translation: Decisioni intuitive. Raffaelo Cortina, 2009)(Polish translation: Intuicja: Intelligencja nieswiadomosci. Prószinsky i S-ka, 2009)(French translation: La genie de l'intuition. Editions Belfond, 2009)(Korean translation: Chungrim)(Brazilian edition: O poder da intuição: O inconsciente dita as melhores decisões. Rio de Janeiro: Best Seller, 2009)(Turkish translation: BZD Publishers)(Chinese translations: China Renmin University Press, 2009; Post Wave Publishing Co., 2015; Beijing United Publishing Co., 2016.)(Taiwanese translation [complex Chinese]: Locus, Taiwan)(Bulgarian translation: Iztok-Zapad)(Romanian translation: Cuertea Veche)(Portuguese translation: Gradiva)(Japanese translation: Intershift, 2010)(Excerpts reprinted in Wer wir sind und wie wir sein könnten, pp. 153-166, by R. Oehler, V. Bernius, & K.-H. Wellmann, Eds., 2008, Freiburg: Herder.)(Chapter 6 reprinted in Kopf schlägt Bauch? Sind Emotionen ein Erfolgsfaktor?, by B. Felden, Ed., 2011, Berlin: Flying Kiwi Verlag.)(Chapter 6 reprinted in The beauty of theory: Zur Ästhetik und Affektökonomie von Theorien, pp. 167-175, by J. Küpper, M. Rautzenberg, M. Schaub, & R. Strätling, Eds., 2013, Paderborn: Fink.)(Excerpts reprinted in Aus den Elfenbeintürmen der Wissenschaft, pp. 187-226, by E. M. Neher, Ed., 2013, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.)(Excerpts reprinted in Texte, Themen und Strukturen, by B. Schurf & A. Wagener, Eds., 2015, Berlin: Cornelsen Schulverlage.)

Publication year	2007
Document type:	Book
Publication status:	Published
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Keywords:	*brain*emotions*instinctive behavior*judgment*unconscious (personality factor)behaviorintelligence