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How do narratives relate to heuristics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2023

Gerd Gigerenzer Open the ORCID record for Gerd Gigerenzer [Opens in a new window]
Gerd Gigerenzer*
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior & Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14193, Germany gigerenzer@mpib-berlin.mpg.de Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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Abstract

Narratives and heuristics are both tools for dealing with uncertainty, intractability, and incommensurability, that is, for all real-world situations outside the domain of Bayesian decision theory. But how do narratives and heuristics relate? I suggest two links: Heuristics select narratives to explain events, and “big” narratives select the heuristics that people live by, to execute their values and moral principles.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e94
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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