01-27-2014, 11:07 AM
Thinking, Fast and Slow
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel
Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in
Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains
the two systems that drive the way we think.
System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more
deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate
strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future,
the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock
market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood
only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
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Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we
can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and
enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and
our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard
against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of
the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one
of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be
a classic.
“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a
crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.” —David Brooks, The
New York Times
“Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the
psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions.” —Jacek Debiec,
Nature
“With Kahneman’s expert help, readers may understand this mix of
psychology and economics better than most accountants, therapists, or
elected representatives. VERDICT A stellar accomplishment, a book for
everyone who likes to think and wants to do it better.” —Library Journal
“The mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes
of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of
decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and
Effort) posits a brain governed by two clashing decision-making
processes. The largely unconscious System 1, he contends, makes
intuitive snap judgments based on emotion, memory, and hard-wired rules
of thumb; the painfully conscious System 2 laboriously checks the facts
and does the math, but is so "lazy" and distractible that it usually
defers to System 1. Kahneman uses this scheme to frame a scintillating
discussion of his findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral
economics, and of the ingenious experiments that tease out the
irrational, self-contradictory logics that underlie our choices. We
learn why we mistake statistical noise for cohere...
About the Author
Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at
Princeton University and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Emeritus at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making.
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel
Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in
Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains
the two systems that drive the way we think.
System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more
deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate
strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future,
the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock
market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood
only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we
can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and
enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and
our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard
against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of
the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one
of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be
a classic.
“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a
crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.” —David Brooks, The
New York Times
“Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the
psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions.” —Jacek Debiec,
Nature
“With Kahneman’s expert help, readers may understand this mix of
psychology and economics better than most accountants, therapists, or
elected representatives. VERDICT A stellar accomplishment, a book for
everyone who likes to think and wants to do it better.” —Library Journal
“The mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes
of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of
decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and
Effort) posits a brain governed by two clashing decision-making
processes. The largely unconscious System 1, he contends, makes
intuitive snap judgments based on emotion, memory, and hard-wired rules
of thumb; the painfully conscious System 2 laboriously checks the facts
and does the math, but is so "lazy" and distractible that it usually
defers to System 1. Kahneman uses this scheme to frame a scintillating
discussion of his findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral
economics, and of the ingenious experiments that tease out the
irrational, self-contradictory logics that underlie our choices. We
learn why we mistake statistical noise for cohere...
About the Author
Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at
Princeton University and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Emeritus at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making.
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