Event Host: Decision Sciences Collaborative
Many experts have concluded that people are basically hopeless when it comes to risk, and need continuous “nudging,” just like a child needs a parent. Against this pessimistic view, Gigerenzer argues that everyone can learn to deal with risk and uncertainty, and that experts are often part of the problem rather than the solution.
Gerd Gigerenzer is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Centre for Risk Literacy in Berlin, Germany, and former professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences, and Batten Fellow at the Darden Business School, University of Virgini
Gerd Gigerenzer – whose work Malcolm Gladwell drew on extensively in his best-selling book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – is author of the award-winning popular books Calculated Risks and Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, and Risk Savvy: How to make good decisions (both books have been translated into 21 languages)
His academic books include Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Rationality for Mortals, and Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox (with Reinhard Selten, a Nobel Laureate in economics). In Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions (with Sir Muir Gray) he shows how better informed doctors and patients can improve healthcare while reducing costs. Together with the Bank of England, he works on the project “Simple heuristics for a safer world.” Gigerenzer has trained U.S. Federal Judges, German physicians, and top managers in decision-making and understanding risks and uncertainties.
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