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Fast and Frugal Cognitive Heuristics

Fast and frugal heuristics are used during the decision-making process when understanding of the situation and the time and cognitive power needed to make the decision is limited (bounded rationality).

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Updated 2024-07-26

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References


  • Fast and frugal heuristics: The tools of bounded rationality. Gigerenzer (2004)

  • OpenStax Psychology (2nd ed.) Textbook

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