
Unlike other living creatures, humans can adapt to uncertainty. They can form
hypotheses about situations marked by uncertainty and can anticipate their actions
by planning. They can expect the unexpected and take precautions against it.
In numerous experiments, we have investigated the manner in which humans deal
with these demands. In these experiments, we used computer simulated scenarios
representing, for example, a small town, ecological or economic systems or political
systems such as a Third World country. Within these computer-simulated scenarios,
the subjects had to look for information, plan actions, form hypotheses, etc.