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"A 30% chance of rain tomorrow": how does the public understand probabilistic weather forecasts?

scientific article published in June 2005

"Big data" needs an analysis of decision processes

scientific article

9/11, Act II: a fine-grained analysis of regional variations in traffic fatalities in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks

scientific article published on 15 November 2012

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!

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

A signal-detection analysis of fast-and-frugal trees

scientific article published in April 2011

Adaptive Thinking

scientific article published on 28 March 2002

Are there limits to binaural additivity of loudness? ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1983

Assessing minimal medical statistical literacy using the Quick Risk Test: a prospective observational study in Germany

article

Authors' reply to Workman

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

Behavioral inconsistencies do not imply inconsistent strategies

scientific article published on 15 November 2011

Breast cancer screening pamphlets mislead women.

scientific article published on 25 April 2014

Can facts trump unconditional trust? Evidence-based information halves the influence of physicians' non-evidence-based cancer screening recommendations

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Can search engine data predict pancreatic cancer?

scientific article

Cassandra's regret: The psychology of not wanting to know

scientific article (publication date: March 2017)

Chapter 106 The Recognition Heuristic and the Less-Is-More Effect

scholarly article published 2008

Chapter 107 The Recognition Heuristic: A Fast and Frugal Way to Investment Choice?

Chapter 108 One-Reason Decision Making

scholarly article published 2008

Children can solve Bayesian problems: the role of representation in mental computation

scientific article published on 2 March 2005

Cognitive Processes in Decisions Under Risk are not the Same as in Decisions Under Uncertainty

scientific article

Collective statistical illiteracy: a cross-cultural comparison with probabilistic national samples: comment on "Statistical numeracy for health".

scientific article published in March 2010

Content-blind norms, no norms, or good norms? A reply to Vranas.

scientific article published in August 2001

Deceiving numbers: survival rates and their impact on doctors' risk communication

scientific article

Decisions on pharmacogenomic tests in the USA and Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on September 16, 2010

Do children have Bayesian intuitions?

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Do citizens have minimum medical knowledge? A survey

scientific article

Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect?

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Do intuitive and deliberate judgments rely on two distinct neural systems? A case study in face processing

scientific article

Do physicians understand cancer screening statistics? A national survey of primary care physicians in the United States

scientific article published in March 2012

Does imitation benefit cue order learning?

scientific article published in January 2009

Domain-specific reasoning: social contracts, cheating, and perspective change

scientific article published on May 1992

Dread risk, September 11, and fatal traffic accidents

scientific article published in April 2004

Enhancing understanding and recall of quantitative information about medical risks: a cross-cultural comparison between Germany and Spain

scientific article published in May 2011

External Validity of Laboratory Experiments: The Frequency-Validity Relationship

Fast and frugal heuristics are plausible models of cognition: reply to Dougherty, Franco-Watkins, and Thomas (2008).

scientific article published in January 2008

Five Principles for Studying People’s Use of Heuristics

article published in 2010

Five year survival rates can mislead

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

From recognition to decisions: extending and testing recognition-based models for multialternative inference

scientific article published in June 2010

From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology

scientific article published in 1991

Full disclosure about cancer screening

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Good judgments do not require complex cognition

scientific article published on 27 September 2009

HIV screening: helping clinicians make sense of test results to patients.

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics

scientific article

Heuristic Decision Making ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Heuristic decision making in medicine.

scientific article published in March 2012

Heuristics

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Heuristics are Tools for Uncertainty

Heuristics: Tools for an Uncertain World

Hindsight bias: a by-product of knowledge updating?

scientific article published in May 2000

Homo Heuristicus: Less-is-More Effects in Adaptive Cognition

scientific article published on October 2012

Homo heuristicus: why biased minds make better inferences

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

How (far) can rationality be naturalized?

How do common investors behave? Information search and portfolio choice among bank customers and university students

How new fact boxes are explaining medical risk to millions

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”

scientific article (publication date: 1991)

How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction: Frequency formats

Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles

scientific article published in January 2011

Legal concerns trigger prostate-specific antigen testing

scientific article published in April 2009

Less can be more: How to make operations more flexible and robust with fewer resources

article by Çağrı Haksöz et al published June 2018 in Chaos

Less is more: Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: evaluation of what physicians tell their patients about screening harms

scientific article published in December 2013

Making sense of health statistics

scientific article published on August 2009

Medicine. Communicating statistical information

scientific article

Mind, rationality, and cognition: An interdisciplinary debate

scientific article

Mindless statistics

scholarly article

Misleading communication of risk

scientific article published on 12 October 2010

Models of ecological rationality: the recognition heuristic

scientific article

Moral Hindsight

scientific article published in March 2017

Moral satisficing: rethinking moral behavior as bounded rationality.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Natural Frequencies Do Foster Public Understanding of Medical Tests: Comment on Pighin, Gonzalez, Savadori and Girotto (2016).

scientific article published in February 2018

Natural frequencies help older adults and people with low numeracy to evaluate medical screening tests

scientific article published on 6 January 2009

Natural frequencies improve Bayesian reasoning in simple and complex inference tasks

scientific article

On narrow norms and vague heuristics: A reply to Kahneman and Tversky

article

On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian Paternalism

scientific article published in January 2015

Out of the frying pan into the fire: behavioral reactions to terrorist attacks

scientific article published in April 2006

Overcoming difficulties in Bayesian reasoning: A reply to Lewis and Keren (1999) and Mellers and McGraw (1999)

Postscript: Fast and frugal heuristics

Presentation and content: The use of base rates as a continuous variable

Probabilistic mental models: a Brunswikian theory of confidence

scientific article published on October 1991

Précis of Simple heuristics that make us smart

scientific article published in October 2000

Précis of Simple heuristics that make us smart

article by Peter M. Todd & Gerd Gigerenzer published October 2000 in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Psychological traces of China's socio-economic reforms in the ultimatum and dictator games

scientific article

Public knowledge of benefits of breast and prostate cancer screening in Europe

scientific article

Putting naturalistic decision making into the adaptive toolbox

scientific article (publication date: 2001)

Reasoning the fast and frugal way: models of bounded rationality

scientific article

Representation facilitates reasoning: what natural frequencies are and what they are not.

scientific article

Risky choice with heuristics: reply to Birnbaum (2008), Johnson, Schulte-Mecklenbeck, and Willemsen (2008), and Rieger and Wang (2008).

scientific article published in January 2008

Simple heuristics and rules of thumb: where psychologists and behavioural biologists might meet

scientific article

Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight

scientific article

Smart strategies for doctors and doctors-in-training: heuristics in medicine

scientific article published in July 2009

Specific attentional dysfunction in adults following early start of cannabis use.

scientific article published in March 1999

Statistical Literacy in Obstetricians and Gynecologists ⬇️

scientific article published on January 31, 2012

Statistical Rituals: The Replication Delusion and How We Got There

Statistical illiteracy undermines informed shared decision making

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Symptom recognition of heart attack and stroke in nine European countries: a representative survey

scientific article published on 06 March 2012

Teaching Bayesian reasoning in less than two hours

scientific article published in September 2001

Testing process predictions of models of risky choice: a quantitative model comparison approach

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

The Barrier to Informed Choice in Cancer Screening: Statistical Illiteracy in Physicians and Patients

scientific article published in January 2018

The Empire of Chance

scientific article published in 1989

The Phenomenology of the Diagnostic Process: A Primary Care-Based Survey

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

The adaptive toolbox: toward a darwinian rationality

scientific article

The hot hand exists in volleyball and is used for allocation decisions

scientific article published in 2012

The power of simplicity: a fast-and-frugal heuristics approach to performance science

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

The priority heuristic: making choices without trade-offs

scientific article published on April 2006

The recognition heuristic: a review of theory and tests

scientific article

The ‘conjunction fallacy’ revisited: how intelligent inferences look like reasoning errors

Towards a paradigm shift in cancer screening: informed citizens instead of greater participation

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Towards competitive instead of biased testing of heuristics: a reply to hilbig and richter (2011).

scientific article published in January 2011

Towards theory integration: Threshold model as a link between signal detection theory, fast-and-frugal trees and evidence accumulation theory

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Training medical students how to extract, assess and communicate evidence from an article

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Transparency in risk communication: graphical and analog tools

scientific article published on April 2008

US gynecologists' estimates and beliefs regarding ovarian cancer screening's effectiveness 5 years after release of the PLCO evidence

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Using icon arrays to communicate medical risks: overcoming low numeracy

scientific article

Using natural frequencies to improve diagnostic inferences ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Visions of rationality ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

What Counselors Tell Low-Risk Clients About HIV Test Performance

scientific article

What are natural frequencies? ⬇️

scientific article published on October 17, 2011

Why Heuristics Work

scientific article published in January 2008

Why do single event probabilities confuse patients?

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Why does framing influence judgment?

scientific article published on November 2003

Why you think milan is larger than modena: neural correlates of the recognition heuristic

scientific article

[How can one improve the understanding and communication of the importance of medical test results?]

scientific article published in October 2000

[Influence of group learning in search processes].

scientific article published in August 2009

[Medical risk assessment--using the example of cancer screening].

scientific article published in January 2008

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