Thinking, fast and slow

• Main Author: Kahneman, Daniel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, United States Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc 2011
• Subjects: Emotions and cognition; Thought and thinking; Decision making; Intuition; Reason
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In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He explains the two systems that drive the way...

Table of Contents:

• Two Systems. The characters of the story ; Attention and effort ; The lazy controller ; The associative machine ; Cognitive ease ; Norms, surprises, and causes ; A machine for jumping to conclusions ; How judgments happen ; Answering an easier question
• Heuristics and Biases. The law of small numbers ; Anchors ; The science of availability ; Availability, emotion, and risk ; Tom W's specialty ; Linda: less is more ; Causes trump statistics ; Regression to the mean ; Taming intuitive predictions
• Overconfidence. The illusion of understanding ; The illusion of validity ; Intuitions vs. formulas ; Expert intuition: when can we trust it? ; The outside view ; The engine of capitalism
• Choices. Bernoulli's errors ; Prospect theory ; The endowment effect ; Bad events ; The fourfold pattern ; Rare events ; Risk policies ; Keeping score ; Reversals ; Frames and reality
• Two Selves. Two selves ; Life as a story ; Experienced well-being ; Thinking about life
• Judgment under uncertainty
• Choices, values, and frames.