8 results for „heuristics“
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Skill sheets. An integrated approach to research, study and management
... amount of information, academics (being just people) use heuristics such as status to judge the quality of other’s work. Such rules ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2009
Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind
... as those described above, people can also rely on simple heuristics when forming or changing attitudes. For instance, people can draw ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2009
How on Earth Do People Understand Each Other in Everyday Conversation?
... and recognize. It has been shown that people rely on heuristics , or rules of thumb, that allow them to asses what is part of ... . One thing is that relying on general rules of thumb or heuristics in assessing common ground can lead to errors. First, the ... / more
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magazine issue | 09/2008
The Surprising Effect of Facial Appearance on Political Decision-Making
... preference efficiently and with little real effort. Heuristics are mental short-cuts that come in handy when we are faced with complex decisions. They can be misguiding, but heuristics certainly conserve a person’s time and mental energy. For ... / more
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Book Review
Influence: Science and Practice (5th ed)
... the distal purpose of these fixed action patterns and other heuristics that we rely on is to reduce our cognitive load, I did not find this ... / more
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magazine issue | 09/2018
Risk assessment tools and criminal reoffending: Does bias determine who is “high risk”?
... A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185(4157) , 1124-1131. [11] ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2024
Does nudging have a place in politics? How decision-making contexts inevitably influence our behavior
... on intuitive rules of thumb to take decisions, so-called heuristics (Kahneman et al., 1982). These usually base a decision on the ... in the decision in this example. R elying on heuristics is helpful and unavoidable in many everyday decisions. It enables ... / more
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magazine issue | 07/2025
Empowerment instead of mind-control. Why myth-busting does not interfere with intellectual independence.
... tools and strategies for critical thinking, such as heuristics , to identify myths or frameworks for evaluating claims (see ... beliefs. Identifying Myths with Heuristics : Some simple rules of thumb (see Fig. 4 below) can help ... / moreHere you can search the entire InMind magazine for any content of your choice. You can reduce your search results by selecting one or more filter options in the right column.