POSITION AT CILS

PI

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Decision Making

Bounded Rationality

Heuristics

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

• Honorary Doctorate, Open University of the Netherlands (2009)
• Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Science (2008)
• Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h.c.), University of Basel (2007)
• Honorary Professor, Humboldt University Berlin (2005 - )
• Batten Fellow, Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2004)
• Professor of the University Society, University of Munich (2004 - )
• Fellow, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2002 - )
• Fellow, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2000 - )
• John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (1999)
• Honorary Professor, Free University Berlin (since 1998)
• Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany (Project on "Biological foundations of human culture") (1991 - 1992)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA (1989 - 1990)
• Visiting Fellow, Harvard University (1987 - 1988, 2002 - 2003)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (Fall 1985)
• Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany (Project on "The impact of the probabilistic revolution on the scientific conception of man and society") (1982 - 1983)

• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconsious shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books (2008)
• Business Book of the Year Prize (Wirtschaftsbuchpreis 2007) for Bauchentscheidungen (German translation of Gut Feelings), awarded by the Swiss Handelszeitung.
• Science Book of the Year Prize (Wissenschaftsbuch 2007) for Bauchentscheidungen (German translation of Gut Feelings), awarded by Bild der Wissenschaft.
• Reckoning with Risk shortlisted for the Aventis Prize for Science Books (2003)
• Science Book of the Year Prize (Wissenschaftsbuch 2002) for Einmaleins der Skepsis (German translation of Calculated Risks), awarded by Bild der Wissenschaft.
• AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Prize for Behavioral Science Research (for "From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology", Psychological Review, 98, 254-267) (1991)
• Akademy Stipend, awarded by the Volkswagen Foundation (1987/1988)
• Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (The probabilistic revolution, MIT Press) (1987)
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize for one of the three best German journal articles in the social sciences (for "Der eindimensionale Wähler", Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 13, 1982, 217-236) (1984)

Books

• Gigerenzer, G., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (Eds.). (in press). Heuristics: The foundations of adaptive behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Gigerenzer, G., & Muir Gray, J. A. (Eds.). (in press). Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020. Strüngmann Forum Report, vol. 6. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Gigerenzer, G. (2008). Rationality for mortals: How people cope with uncertainty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Gigerenzer, G. (2007). Gut feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious. New York: Viking Press.
• Gigerenzer, G. (2002). Calculated risks: How to know when numbers deceive you. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Articles

• Berg, N., & Gigerenzer, G. (2010). As-if behavioral economics: Neoclassical economics in disguise? History of Economic Ideas, 18, 133-165. doi:10.1400/140334
• Gigerenzer, G. (2010). Moral satisficing: Rethinking moral behavior as bounded. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2, 528-554. doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01094.x
• Gigerenzer, G., & Brighton, H. J. (2009). Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 107-143.
• Gigerenzer, G., Gaissmaier, W., Kurz-Milcke, E., Schwartz, L. M., & Woloshin, S. (2007). Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8, 53-96.
• Gigerenzer, G. (2006). Bounded and rational. In R. J. Stainton (Ed.), Contemporary debates in cognitive science (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy No. 7) (pp. 115-133). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

sekgigerenzer(at)mpib-berlin.mpg.de

Website

Short CV

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (since 1997)

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (1995 - 1997)

Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago, USA (1992 - 1995)

Professor of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria (1990 - 1992)

Professor of Psychology, University of Konstanz (1984 - 1990)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Munich (1982 - 1984)

Habilitation, University of Munich (1982)

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Munich (1977 - 1982)

PhD in Psychology, University of Munich (1977)