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Peer reviewedGigerenzer, Gerd – Psychological Review, 1991
How scientists' tools have shaped theories of mind is explored, focusing on how methods of statistical inference have turned into metaphors of mind. The tools-to-theories heuristic explains emergence of a range of cognitive theories, and can be applied to current approaches that investigate the mind as an intuitive statistician. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Discovery Processes, Heuristics, Intuition
