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Is rationality overrated?

With Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer on simple rules, fast decisions, and why the textbook's idea of a rational person would not survive a week.

By Alina Petrova23 Aug 202638 min listen

People crossing a sunlit concrete hall — Morning light in a concrete hall, Lisbon. Photograph: The Unreasonable Human

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Is rationality overrated?

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With Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer on simple rules, fast decisions, and why the textbook's idea of a rational person would not survive a week.

Recorded in London. A transcript follows within the week.

Rationality Decision-making

Alina Petrova — Editor-in-chief

Alina Petrova is a Year 12 student preparing to apply to university, and the founder and editor of The Unreasonable Human. She reads across psychology, economics, behavioural science and neuroscience, and writes about the gap between how people are supposed to decide and how they actually do.

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