# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerd-gigerenzer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:50:57.029Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gerd-gigerenzer"
name: "Gerd Gigerenzer"
slug: "gerd-gigerenzer"
description: "Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, and vice president of the European Research Council (ERC)."
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birthDate: "1947-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump