Ecological Rationality: When Is Bias A Good Thing?

By Rebecca Brown Many people will be broadly familiar with the ‘heuristics and biases’ (H&B) program of work, made prominent by the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 1970s. H&B developed alongside the new sub-discipline of Behavioural Economics, both detailing the ways in which human decision-makers deviate from what would be expected of […]

Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 3, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Rebecca Brown Tags: Decision making Health Care heuristics psychology rationality Rebecca Brown's Posts syndicated Source Type: blogs