Articles
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Katsikopoulos, K. V., & Gigerenzer, G. (2026). Fast-and-frugal heuristics: analytical models of intuition. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 37(1), 17-33.
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Dubova, M., Chandramouli, S., Gigerenzer, G., Grünwald, P., Holmes, W., Lombrozo, T., Marelli, M., Musslick, S., Nicenboim, B., Ross, L., Shiffrin, R., White, M., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Bürkner, P.-C., & Sloman, S. J. (2025). Is Occam’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony. PNAS, 122 (5), e2401230121. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., Allen, C., Gaillard, S., Goldstone, R. L., Haaf, J., Holmes, W. R., Kashima, Y., Motz, B., Musslick, S. & Stefan, A. (2025). Alternative models of funding curiosity-driven research. PNAS, 122 (5). e2401237121. DOI
Trueblood, J. S., Allison, D. B., Field, S. M., Fishbach, A., Gaillard, S. D. M., Gigerenzer, G., Holmes, W. R., Lewandowsky, S., Matzke, D., Murphy, M. C., Musslick, S., Popov, V., Roskies, A. L.,ter Schure, J., & Teodorescu, A. R. (2025). The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform. PNAS, 122 (5), e2401231121. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2025). Ecological rationality: rethinking behavioural economics. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics (pp. 153-155). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI
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Gigerenzer, G. (2024). The rationality wars: A personal reflection. Behavioral Public Policy.
Gigerenzer, G., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2024). Uncertainty about paternity: A study on deliberate ignorance. Frontiers in Psychology, 15:1399995. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1399995
Saltelli, A., Gigerenzer, G., Hulme, M., Katsikopoulos, K. V., Melsen, L. A., Peters, G. P., Pielke, R. Jr., Robertson, S., Stirling, A., Tavoni, M., & Puy, A. (2024). Bring digital twins back to earth. WIREs Climate Change. doi: 10.1002/wcc.915
Gigerenzer, G. (2024). Geleitwort. In F.-J. Fischer (Ed.), Risikoadjustierung und individualisierte Medizin (pp. 13–14). Kohlhammer.
Gigerenzer, G. (2024). AI in an uncertain world: Response to Krueger’s review of How to Stay Smart in a Smart World. American Journal of Psychology, 137, 74-77.
Artinger, F., & Gigerenzer, G. (2024). How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: The “cheap twin paradox.” Industrial and Corporate Change. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., & Langenbucher, K. (2024, August 3). Verbrauchergerechtes Kredit-Scoring ist möglich. Börsen-Zeitung, 148.
Gigerenzer, G. (2024). Can psychology learn from the natural sciences? Theory & Psychology, 34(3), 295–310.
Gigerenzer, G. (2024). Schlafwandelnd in die Überwachung. Zeitschrift für Organisationsentwicklung, 3, 65–66.
Capraro, V., Lentsch, A., Acemoglu, D., Akgun, S., Akhmedova, A., Bilancini, E., Bonnefon, J-F., Brañas-Garza, P., Butera, L., Douglas, K. M., Everett, J. A. M., Gigerenzer, G., Greenhow, C., Hashimoto, D. A., Holt-Lunstad, J., Jetten, J., Johnson, S., Longoni, C., Lunn, P., Natale, S., Rahwan, I., Selwyn, N., Singh, V., Suri, S., Sutcliffe, J., Tomlinson, J., van der Linden, S., van Lange, P. A. M., Wall, F., van Bavel, J. J., Viale, R. (2024). The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making. PNAS Nexus,3(6), Article page 191. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2024). Democracy needs statistical literacy. Foreword to J. Ridgway (Ed.), Teaching statistics for empowerment and social engagement: Resources for teaching civic statistics to develop informed citizens (pp. v-vii). Springer.
Gigerenzer, G., Mousavi, S., & Viale, R. (2024). Introduction: Simon says. In G. Gigerenzer, S. Mousavi, & R. Viale (Eds.), Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon (pp. 1–4). Edward Elgar
Gigerenzer, G., & Goldstein, D. (2024). Herbert Simon on mind as computer. In G. Gigerenzer, S. Mousavi, & R. Viale (Eds.), Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon (pp. 15–32). Edward Elgar.
Gigerenzer, G. (2024). From bounded rationality to ecological rationality. In G. Gigerenzer, S. Mousavi, & R. Viale (Eds.), Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon (pp. 148–175). Edward Elgar.
Reb, J., Luan, S., & Gigerenzer, G. (2024). Smart heuristics for smart management: How leaders can make effective decisions in a VUCA world. Asian Management Insights, March Issue, 34-39.
Schmidt, S. (2024). Wenn der Bauch "spricht": Intuition und deren Auswirkung auf Entscheidungen und Handlungen von Polizistinnen und Polizisten [Prof. Dr. Sandra Schmidt im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer (Berlin)]. Die Polizei, (7), 262–267.
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Gigerenzer, G. (2023). Psychological AI. Perspectives on Psychological Science. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2023). Wahrscheinlichkeiten verstehen und begreifen: Anforderungen an Bildung und Kommunikation. In O. Renn & U. Kuhlmann (Eds.), Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Unsicherheit. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Ed.), Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Unsicherheit: Streitgespräch in den Wissenschaftlichen Sitzungen der Versammlung der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 26. November 2021 und am 3. Juni 2022 (pp. 17–22). Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Woike, J. K., Hertwig, R., & Gigerenzer, G. (2023). Heterogeneity of rules in Bayesian reasoning: A toolbox analysis. Cognitive Psychology, 143, 101564. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2023). Wider die mentale Pandemie der Zahlenblindheit. In S. Turner & S. Russ-Mohl (Eds.), Deep Journalism: Redaktionelle Domänenkompetenz als Erfolgsfaktor (pp. 139-144). Herbert von Halem Verlag.
Gigerenzer, G. (2023). All in the numbers. In M. N. Wise, M. S. Morgan, E. Didier, L. Daston, & S. de Chadarevian (eds.). Ted’s numbers (pp. 44-47). Rounded Globe.
Gigerenzer, G. (2023). How do narratives relate to heuristics? Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46, 43-44. e94 DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2023). Heuristic. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds). Dictionary of ecological economics (pp. 266–267). Edward Elgar.
Sabel, B. A., Knaack, E., Gigerenzer, G., & Bilc, M. (2023). Fake publications in biomedical science: Red-flagging method indicates mass production. MedRxiv, October 18, 2023. DOI
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Artinger, F., Gigerenzer, G. & Jacobs, P. (2022). Satisficing: Integrating two traditions. Journal of Economic Literature, 60, 598–635. DOI
Wang, Y., Luan, S., & Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Modeling fast-and-frugal heuristics. PsyCH Journal, 11(4), 600–611.
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). The idea of a peculiarly female intelligence: A brief history of bias masked as science. In R. J. Sternberg & D. D. Preiss (Eds.), Intelligence in context: The cultural and historical foundations of human intelligence (pp. 93–120). Palgrave-Macmillan. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). One data point can beat big data. Behavioral Scientist, August 31.
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Psychologie des Risikos: Warum eine freie Gesellschaft risikokompetente Bürger braucht. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), 72, 26–32.
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Why we read. In J. Greywoode (Ed.), Why we read (pp. 60–62). Penguin Books.
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Simple heuristics to run a research group. PsyCH Journal, 11, 275–280. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Digitale Risikokompetenz: Wer steuert unser Verhalten? FIfF Kommunikation, 39, 20–24.
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Entscheiden unter Ungewissheit. In K. Korte, G. Scobel, & T. Yildiz (Eds.), Heuristiken des politischen Entscheidens (pp. 25–43). Suhrkamp.
Gigerenzer, G., Reb, J., & Luan, S. (2022). Smart heuristics for individuals, teams, and organizations. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 9, 171–198. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2022). We need to think more about how we conduct research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, 35–37. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., Hurrelmann, K., Jonitz, G., & Schaeffer, D. (2022). Deutschland braucht eine Agentur für Gesundheitskommunikation: Plädoyer für eine Neuaufstellung der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung. Gesundheitswesen, 84, 13–15. DOI
Katsikopoulos, K., Şimşek, Ö., Buckmann, M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Reply to commentaries on “Transparent modeling of influenza incidence”: Recency heuristics and psychological AI. International Journal of Forecasting, 38, 630–634. DOI
Katsikopoulos, K., Şimşek, Ö., Buckmann, M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2022). Transparent modeling of influenza incidence: Big data or a single data point from psychological theory? International Journal of Forecasting, 38, 613–619. DOI
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Gigerenzer, G. (2021). Embodied heuristics. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 711289. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., Multmeier, J., Föhring, A., & Wegwarth, O. (2021). Do children have Bayesian intuitions? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 50, 1041–1070. DOI
Rebitschek, F. G., Gigerenzer, G., & Wagner, G. G. (2021). People underestimate the errors made by algorithms for credit scoring and recidivism prediction but accept even fewer errors. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 20171. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2021). Axiomatic rationality and ecological rationality. Synthese, 198, 3547–3564. DOI
Aikman, D., Galesic, M., Gigerenzer, G., Kapadia, S., Katsikopoulos, K. V., Kothiyal, A., Murphy, E., & Neumann, T. (2021). Taking uncertainty seriously: Simplicity versus complexity in financial regulation. Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(2), 317–345. DOI
Jacobs, P., & Gigerenzer, G. (2021). Using variation between countries to estimate demand for Cochrane reviews when access is free: A cost-benefit analysis. British Medical Journal: Open,11(7):e033310. DOI
Ehrig, T., Katsikopoulos, K., Jost, J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2021). An exploratory study of heuristics for anticipating prices. Management Decision, 59(7), 1750–1761. DOI
Baenninger, P. B., Bachmann, L. M., Iselin, K. C., Pfaeffli, O. A., Kaufmann, C., Thiel, M. A., & Gigerenzer, G. (2021). Mismatch of corneal specialists‘ expectations and keratoconus knowledge in general ophthalmologists: A prospective observational study in Switzerland. BMC Medical Education, 21:297. DOI
Rebitschek, F., Gigerenzer, G., Keitel, A., Sommer, S., Gross, C., & Wagner, G. G. (2021). Acceptance of criteria for health and driver scoring in the general public in Germany. PLOS ONE, 16(4):e0250224. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2021). What is bounded rationality? In R. Viale (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality (pp. 55–69). Routledge.
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Rebitschek, F., & Gigerenzer, G. (2020). Einschätzung der Qualität digitaler Gesundheitsangebote: Wie können informierte Entscheidungen gefördert werden? Bundesgesundheitsblatt-Gesundheitsforschung – Gesundheitsschutz, 63, 665–673. DOI
Trimmer, P. C., McElreath, R., Auster, S., Brown, G. D. A., Dana, J., Gigerenzer, G., Golman, R., Hilbe, C., Kandler, A., Kareev, Y., Schooler, L. J., & Szech, N. (2020). The zoo of models of deliberate ignorance. In R. Hertwig & C. Engel (Eds.), Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know (pp. 155–183) . MIT Press.
Gigerenzer, G. (2020). Corona, Sars und Schweinegrippe: Warum wir Risikokompetenz brauchen. In Corona und wir: Denkanstöße für eine veränderte Welt. Penguin.
Gigerenzer, G. (2020). The leader’s toolbox. In A. Sharman (Ed.), One percent safer, (p. 89). Maverick Eagle Press.
Gigerenzer, G. (2020). When all is just a click away. Is critical thinking obsolete in the digital age? In R. J. Sternberg & D. F. Halpern (Eds.), Critical thinking in psychology (2nd ed., pp. 197–223). Cambridge University Press.
Binder, K., Krauss, S., & Gigerenzer, G. (2020). Risikoveränderungen: Wie absolute und relative Veränderungen mit Bildgittern unterrichtet werden können. Mathematik lehren, 220, 12–15.
Gigerenzer, G. (2020). Intelligence and decision making. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Vol. I (pp. 580-601). Cambridge University Press.
Tuckett, D., Smith, L., Gigerenzer, G., & Jost, J. (2020). To make good decisions under uncertainty, decision-makers must act creatively to avoid paralysis, while recognizing the possibility of failure. In Complexity after Covid. No. 023 (April 27). SFI Press.
Gigerenzer, G. (2020). Foreword. In Forbes, W., Igboekwu, A., & Mousavi, S. A fast and frugal finance: Bridging Contemporary Behavioral Finance and Ecological Rationality (pp. xi-xiii). Academic Press.
Todd, P. M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2020). The ecological rationality of situations: Behavior = f(adaptive toolbox, environment). In J. F. Rauthmann, R. A. Sherman, & D. C. Funder (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Psychological Situations (pp. 143-158). Oxford University Press. DOI
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Luan, S., Reb, J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2019). Ecological rationality: Fast-and-frugal heuristics for managerial decision making under uncertainty. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1735–1759. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., Wagner, G. G., Gerberding, J., Gross, C., Keitel, A., Rebitschek, F., & Sommer, S. (2019). Verbraucher-Scoring – fair und korrekt? In Reiffenstein, M & Blaschek, B. (Eds.), Konsumentenpolitisches Jahrbuch 2019 (pp. 77–111). Verlag Österreich.
Gigerenzer, G. (2019). Braucht man statistisches Denken in einer digitalen Welt? In Deggendorfer Forum zur digitalen Datenanalyse e. V. (Ed.), Künstliche Intelligenz (pp. 98–120). IDW Verlag.
Gigerenzer, G. (2019). Expert intuition is not rational choice. Review of Sources of Power by Gary Klein, 20th Anniversary Edition. American Psychologist, 132, 475–480.
Gigerenzer, G. (2019). How to explain behavior? Topics in Cognitive Science. DOI
Artinger, F. M., Artinger, S., & Gigerenzer, G. (2019). C.Y.A.: Frequency and causes of defensive decisions in public administration. Business Research, 12, 9–25. DOI
McDowell, M., Gigerenzer, G., Wegwarth, O., & Rebitschek, F. G. (2019). Effect of tabular and icon fact box formats on comprehension of benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening: A randomized trial. Medical Decision Making, 39, 41–56. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., Luan, S., & Liu, Y. (2019). Are we truly irrational and almost impossible to educate? Analyzing the scientific evidence behind libertine paternalism. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 50, 1–12. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2019). Rationales Entscheiden unter Ungewissheit ≠ Rationales Entscheiden unter Risiko. In B. Fleischer, R. Lauterbach, & K. Pawlik (Eds.), Rationale Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit (pp. 1–14). (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg No. 8). De Gruyter.
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Gigerenzer, G. (2018). The bias bias in behavioral economics. Review of Behavioral Economics, 5, 303–336. DOI
Kruglanski, A. W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles. In A. Kruglanski, The motivated mind: The selected works of Arie Kruglanski (pp. 104–128). Routledge. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., Rebitschek, F., & Wagner, G. G. (2018). Eine vermessene Gesellschaft braucht Transparenz. Wirtschaftsdienst, 12, 860–866. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2018). The heuristics revolution: Rethinking the role of uncertainty in finance. In R. Viale, S. Mousavi, B. Alemanni, & U. Filotto (Eds.), The behavioral finance revolution: A new approach to financial policies and regulations (pp. 115–134). Edward Elgar.
Wegwarth, O., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). US gynecologists' estimates and beliefs regarding ovarian cancer screening's effectiveness 5 years after release of the PLCO evidence. Scientific Reports, 8:17181. DOI
Jenny, M. A., Keller, N., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Assessing minimal medical statistical literacy using the Quick Risk Test: A prospective observational study in Germany. BMJ Open, 8:e020847. DOI
Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen (2018). Verbrauchergerechtes Scoring (federführend G. Gigerenzer & G. Wagner). Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz. bud.[Advisory Council for Consumer Affairs (2018), Consumer-friendly scoring. Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.]
Rebitschek, F. G., Gigerenzer, G., & Wagner, G. G. (2018). Voraussetzungen einer den Menschen Nutzen bringenden Digitalisierung. In: Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen (Ed.), Mensch und Gesellschaft im digitalen Wandel (pp. 26-31). Deutscher Psychologen Verlag.
Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Statistical rituals: The replication delusion and how we got there. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 198–218. DOI
Haksöz, C. Katsikopoulos, K., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Less can be more: How to make operations more flexible and robust with fewer resources. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 28, 063102. DOI
Keller, N., Jenny, M., Gigerenzer. G., & Ablin, R. J. (2018). PSA-Screening: Möglicher Nutzen und Schaden. Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 115, A 583–A 587.
McDowell, M., Galesic, M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Natural frequencies do foster public understanding of medical tests: Comment on Pighin, Gonzales, Savadori and Girotto (2016). Medical Decision Making, 38, 390–399. DOI
Artinger, F. M., Kozodi, N., Wangenheim, F., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Recency: Prediction with smart data. In J. Goldenberg, J. Laran, & A. Stephen (Eds.), 2018 AMA Winter Academic Conference: Integrating paradigms in a world where marketing is everywhere, February 23-25, 2018, New Orleans, LA. Proceedings (Vol. 29, pp. L-2-L-6). American Marketing Association.
Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Risikokompetenz und die Gestaltung der eigenen Zukunft: Gerd Gigerenzer im Gespräch. In T. Druyen (Ed.), Die ultimative Herausforderung – über die Veränderungsfähigkeit der Deutschen (pp. 289–303). Springer.
Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Visual illusions and ecological rationality. Section in Chater, N., Felin, T., Funder, D. C. et al. Mind, rationality, and cognition: An interdisciplinary debate. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. DOI
Nordli, S., Todd, P. M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). Ecological rationality needs no all-seeing eye. Section in Chater, N., Felin, T., Funder, D. C. et al. Mind, rationality, and cognition: An interdisciplinary debate. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. DOI
Wegwarth, O., & Gigerenzer, G. (2018). The barrier to informed choice in cancer screening: Statistical illiteracy in physicians and patients. In U. Goerling & A. Mehnert A. (Eds.), Psycho-Oncology (Recent Results in Cancer Research No. 210) (2nd ed., pp. 207-221). Springer.
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Keller, N., Feufel, M. A., Kendel, F., Spies, C. D., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Training medics how to extract, assess and communicate evidence from an article. Medical Education, 51, 1162–1163. DOI
Krämer, W., Bauer, T., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Viel Lärm um nichts, oder: Was tun gegen das Innumeratentum? Editorial. BIOspektrum, 23, 615. DOI
Mousavi, S., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Heuristics are tools for uncertainty. Homo Oeconomicus, 34, 361–379. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Vorwort zu A. F. Hannawa & G. Jonitz, Neue Wege für die Patientensicherheit: Sichere Kommunikation (pp. vii–viii). De Gruyter.
Rebitschek, F. G., Gigerenzer, G., & Wagner, G. G. (2017). Kritische Voraussetzungen für ein digitales Gesundheitswesen in Deutschland. Section in Lux, T., Breil, B., Dörries, M. et al. Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen – zwischen Datenschutz und moderner Medizinversorgung. Wirtschaftsdienst, 97, 699–703. DOI
Wegwarth, O., Gigerenzer, G. & Wagner, G. G. (2017). Can facts trump unconditional trust? Evidence based information halves the influence of physicians’ non-evidence-based cancer screening recommendations. PLOS ONE 12(8):e0183024
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). A theory integration program. Decision, 4, 133–145.
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Is your smartphone able to predict pancreatic cancer? British Medical Journal, 358:j3159.
Gigerenzer, G., & Kolpatzik, K. (2017). How new fact boxes are explaining medical risk to millions. British Medical Journal, 317:j2460. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., & Gray, W. D. (2017). A simple heuristic successfully used by humans, animals, and machines: The story of the RAF and Luftwaffe, hawks and ducks, dogs and Frisbees, baseball outfielders and sidewinder missiles – Oh my! Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 260–263. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Risiko-Kompetenz: Wie trifft man gute Entscheidungen? In K. M. Einhäupl (Ed.), Medizin 4.0 – Zur Zukunft der Medizin in der digitalisierten Welt (pp. 271–278). Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Stiftung.
Fleischhut, N., Meder, B., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Moral hindsight. Experimental Psychology, 64, 110–123. DOI
Hozo, I., Djulbegovic, B., Luan, S., Ttsalatsanis, A., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Towards theory integration: Threshold model as a link between signal-detection theory, fast-and-frugal trees and evidence accumulation theory. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 23, 49–65. DOI
Gigerenzer, G., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2017). Cassandra’s regret. The psychology of not wanting to know. Psychological Review, 124, 179–196. DOI
Helbing, D., Frey, B. S., Gigerenzer, G., Hafen, E., Hagner, M., Hofstetter, Y., van der Hofen, J., Zicari, R. V., Zwitter, A. (2017). Will democracy survive big data and artificial intelligence? Scientific American, February 25, 2017.(Reprinted in Towards digital Enlightenment, pp. 73–98, by D. Helbing, Ed., 2019, Springer)
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Digital risk literacy: Technology needs users who can control it. Scientific American, February 25, 2017.
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Technik braucht Menschen, die sie beherrschen. In C. Könneker (Ed.), Unsere digitale Zukunft (pp. 33–36). Springer. Reprinted in: Z-Abitur BK NRW 2017, Deutsch GK-EUS, Ministerium für Schule und Weiterbildung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. 2017.
Helbing, D., Frey, B. S., Gigerenzer, G., Hafen, E., Hagner, M., Hofstetter, Y., van der Hofen, J., Zicari, R. V., Zwitter, A. (2017). Eine Strategie für das digitale Zeitalter. In C. Könneker (Ed.), Unsere digitale Zukunft (pp. 23–28). Springer.
Helbing, D., Frey, B. S., Gigerenzer, G., Hafen, E., Hagner, M., Hofstetter, Y., van der Hofen, J., Zicari, R. V., Zwitter, A. (2017). Demokratie statt Datendiktatur. In C. Könneker (Ed.), Unsere digitale Zukunft (pp. 3–21). Springer.
Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Living in terror of terrorism. In J. Brockman (Ed.), Know this: Today’s most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments (pp. 348–349). Harper Perennial.
Donner-Banzhoff, N., Seidel, J., Sikeler, A-M., Bösner, S., Vogelmeier, M., Westram, A., Feufel, M., Gaissmaier, W., Wegwarth, O., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). The phenomenology of the diagnostic process: A primary-care-based survey. Medical Decision Making, 37, 27–34. DOI
Mousavi, S., Gigerenzer, G., & Kheirandisch, R. (2017). Rethinking behavioral economics through fast- and-frugal heuristics. In R. Frantz, S.-H. Chen, K. Dopfer, F. Heukelom, & S. Mousavi (Eds.). Routledge handbook of behavioral economics (pp. 280–296). Routledge.
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Gigerenzer, G., Kuoni, J., Ritschard, R., Jenny, M., & Held, A. (2016). Was Ärzte wissen müssen: Die Kunst der Risikokommunikation. Hessisches Ärzteblatt, 12, 10–16.
Artinger, F. M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Adaptive heuristic pricing. Academy of Management Proceedings, Article 13915. DOI
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Introduction: Taking heuristics seriously. In A. Samson (Ed.), The Behavioral Economics Guide 2016. Retrieved from www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-behavioraleconomics-guide-2016/ (pp. V–XI). Behavioral Science Solutions.
Hafenbraedl, S., Waeger, D., Marewski, J. N., & Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Applied decision making with fast-and-frugal heuristics. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5, 215–231. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.04.011
McDowell, M., Rebitschek, F. G., Gigerenzer, G., & Wegwarth, O. (2016). A simple tool for communicating the benefits and harms of health interventions: A guide for creating a fact box. Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice, 1:2381468316665365. doi: 10.1177/2381468316665365
Berg, N., Biele, G., & Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Consistent Bayesians are no more accurate than Non-Bayesians: Economists surveyed about PSA. Review of Behavioral Economics. 3, 189–219. doi:10.1561/105.00000034
Gigerenzer, G., & Rebitschek, F. G. (2016). Informierte Patienten durch die Verbreitung von Faktenboxen. In Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Ed.), Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 2016. MPG. doi:10.17617/1.2O
Gigerenzer, G. & Rebitschek, F. G. (2016). Das Jahrhundert des Patienten: Zum Umgang mit Risiken und Chancen. Zeitschrift für Allgemeinmedizin, 92, 213–219. doi:10.3238/zfa.2016.0213–0219.
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Rationality without optimization: Bounded rationality. In L. Macchi, M. Bagassi, & R. Viale (Eds.), Cognitive unconscious and human rationality (pp. 3–22). MIT Press.
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Towards a rational theory of heuristics. In R. Frantz & L. Marsh (Eds.), Minds, models, and milieux: Commemorating the centennial of the birth of Herbert Simon (pp. 34–59). Palgrave Macmillan.
Gigerenzer, G., Schlegel-Matthies, K. & Wagner, G. G. (2016). Digitale Welt und Gesundheit. eHealth und mHealth – Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitsbereich. Veröffentlichungen des Sachverständigenrats für Verbraucherfragen. Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz.
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Ökonomie und menschliches Verhalten – wie trifft man gute Entscheidungen. In M. Meyer (Ed.), Europa – Spannungsfeld zwischen Ost und West (pp. 69–96). Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Response: Full disclosure about cancer screening. British Medical Journal, 352:h6967.
Arkes, H. R., Gigerenzer, G., & Hertwig, R. (2016). How bad is incoherence? Decision, 3, 20–39.
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Full disclosure about cancer screening: Time to change communication from dodgy persuasion to something straightforward. British Medical Journal, 352:h6967. doi:10.1136/bmj.h6967
Gigerenzer, G. (2016). Stichwörter: Entscheiden unter Unsicherheit (p. 247); Heuristik (p. 380); Kognition (pp. 463–4); Risikokompetenz (p. 719). In F. Petermann, G. Gründer, M. A. Wirtz, & L. Strohmer (Eds.), Lexikon der Psychotherapie und Psychopharmakologie. Hogrefe.
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Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Towards a paradigm shift in cancer screening: Informed citizens instead of greater participation. Germany aims to stop nudging the public on screening. BMJ, 350:h2175. doi:10.1136/bmj.h2175
Raab, M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2015). The power of simplicity: A fast-and-frugal approach to performance science. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1672. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01672
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Robodoctors. In Brockman, J. (Ed.), What to think about machines that think (pp.317–320). Harper Perennial.
Artinger, F., Petersen, M. Gigerenzer, G., & Weibler, J. (2015). Heuristics as adaptive decision strategies in management. Journal of Organizational Behavior 36, S33–S52. doi: 10.1002/job.1950
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Wie Heuristiken unsere moralischen Entscheidungen beeinflussen. Interview. Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik, 15, 41–45.
Gigerenzer, G., Kuoni, J., & Ritschard, R. (2015). Was Ärzte wissen müssen. Swiss Medical Forum, 15(36), 787–793.(French translation: Ce que les médecins doivent savoir. Forum Médical Suisse, 2015, 15, 787–793).
Hoffrage, U., Krauss, S., Martignon, L., & Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Natural frequencies improve Bayesian reasoning in simple and complex inference tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1473.doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01473
Mega, L., Gigerenzer, G., & Volz, K. G. (2015). Do intuitive and deliberate judgments rely on two distinct neural systems? A case study in face processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:456. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00456
Neth, H., & Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Heuristics: Tools for an uncertain world. In R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging trends in the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 1–18). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0394
Prinz, R., Feufel, M., Gigerenzer, G., & Wegwarth, O. (2015). What counselors tell low-risk clients about HIV test performance. Current HIV Research, 13, 369–380. doi:10.2174/1570162X13666150511125200
Brighton, H., & Gigerenzer, G. (2015). The bias bias. Journal of Business Research, 68, 1772–1784. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.01.061
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). On the supposed evidence for libertarian paternalism. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 6, 363–383. doi:10.1007/s13164-015-0248-1
Gigerenzer, G. & Gaissmaier, W. (2015). Intuition und Führung: Wie gute Entscheidungen entstehen. In M. W. Fröse, S. Kaudela-Baum, & F. E. P. Dievernich (Eds.). Emotion und Intuition in Führung und Organisation (pp. 19–42). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-07796-9_2
Gigerenzer, G., & Gaissmaier, W. (2015). Decision making: Nonrational theories. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (2nd ed., Vol. 5, pp. 911–916). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.03202
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Computers: Impact on the social sciences. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed., Vol. 5, pp. 515–518). Elsevier.
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). In the lab of Gerd Gigerenzer. In R. J. Sternberg & K. Sternberg (Eds.), Cognitive psychology (7th ed., p. 455). Cengage Learning.
Gigerenzer, G., & Martignon, L. (2015). Risikompetenz in der Schule lernen. Lernen und Lernstörungen, 4, 91–98. doi:10.1024/2235-0977/a000098
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Prozente führen in die Irre. Gesundheit & Gesellschaft, 2/15, p. 3.
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). Statistical inference via statistical rituals. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This idea must die (pp. 523–526). Harper Perennial.
Gigerenzer, G. & Marewski, J. (2015). Surrogate science: The idol of a universal method for scientific inference. Journal of Management, 41, 421–440. doi:10.1177/0149206314547522
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Editorial - Making the digital world ours
Gerd Gigerenzer for ERC Magazine
Considering the digital world today means confronting questions that intersect with research, policy, and everyday life. As our societies become increasingly shaped by algorithms, platforms, and data-driven systems, the challenge is not just to keep up but to remain truly in control.
Exploring these questions, as my book How to Stay Smart in a Smart World does, reveals that while AI and automated systems excel at narrow, well-defined tasks, they often stumble when it comes to judgement, empathy, and uncertainty. Read More
The Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics had invited me to write about the legacy of Kahneman.
The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View.
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s joint papers from the 1970s and 1980s have inspired many, including myself. These articles magically turned statistical thinking—previously a niche interest—into a major research focus. Kahneman and Tversky revived the concept of heuristics, which had largely been forgotten at the time, and played a pivotal role in bringing psychology to the attention of economics and other social sciences. I was also deeply influenced by Tversky’s seminal work on the foundations of measurement, which inspired my first book on modeling (Gigerenzer 1981). Read More (PDF)
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
One of the greatest threats to the integrity of science today is the exponentially increasing number of studies and data fabricated with the help of AI and published for commercial profit, which has become a lucrative industry. In June 2025, I was one of the invited participants in a workshop on the problem, held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Our resulting statement and call to action (the Stockholm Declaration) can be found here:
