Gerd Gigerenzer

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1. Gerd Gigerenzer

   Author of Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You, Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition Series)

2. Antonio R. Damasio

   Author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

3. Thomas Gilovich

   Author of How We Know What Isn't So, Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

4. Ian Hacking

   Author of The Social Construction of What?, Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inferenc

5. Daniel Kahneman

   Author of Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, Choices, Values, and Frames

6. Gary Klein

   Author of Sources of Power, The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work

7. John Allen Paulos

   Author of A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Beyond Numeracy, A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

8. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

   Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

9. Steven Pinker

   Author of How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

10. Richard H. Thaler

    Author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, The Winner's Curse

11. Herbert Alexander Simon

    Author of The Sciences of the Artificial, Models of My Life

12. John Holland

    Author of Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books), Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

13. Gary F. Marcus

    Author of Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)

14. Steve Jones

    Author of Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated, The Language of the Genes, In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny

15. Jeff Hawkins

    Author of On Intelligence

16. Theodore M. Porter

    Author of Trust in Numbers, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900

17. Jonathan Baron

    Author of Thinking and Deciding

18. Dan Sperber

    Author of Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach

19. David G. Myers

    Author of Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (Yale Nota Bene)

20. Dietrich Dorner

    Author of The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations