Gerd Gigerenzer

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Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, both in Berlin, Germany. His areas of interest include bounded rationality and social intelligence as well as decisions under uncertainty and time restrictions. For his work, he has received numerous awards, among them the AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research for the best article in the behavioral sciences, the Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the social and behavioral sciences, and the German Psychology Prize. Gigerenzer is also Batten Fellow at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia, and Fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Sciences.