Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, ISBN-13: 978-0141918921

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, ISBN-13: 978-0141918921

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Major New York Times bestseller

Over two million copies sold

Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011

Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of 2011

2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

Daniel Kahneman’s work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis’s best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous 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. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART I. TWO SYSTEMS

1. THE CHARACTERS OF THE STORY

2. ATTENTION AND EFFORT

3. THE LAZY CONTROLLER

4. THE ASSOCIATIVE MACHINE

5. COGNITIVE EASE

6. NORMS, SURPRISES, AND CAUSES

7. A MACHINE FOR JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS

8. HOW JUDGMENTS HAPPEN

9. ANSWERING AN EASIER QUESTION

PART II. HEURISTICS AND BIASES

10. THE LAW OF SMALL NUMBERS

11. ANCHORS

12. THE SCIENCE OF AVAILABILITY

13. AVAILABILITY, EMOTION, AND RISK

14. TOM W’S SPECIALTY

15. LINDA: LESS IS MORE

16. CAUSES TRUMP STATISTICS

17. REGRESSION TO THE MEAN

18. TAMING INTUITIVE PREDICTIONS

PART III. OVERCONFIDENCE

19. THE ILLUSION OF UNDERSTANDING

20. THE ILLUSION OF VALIDITY

21. INTUITIONS VS. FORMULAS

22. EXPERT INTUITION: WHEN CAN WE TRUST IT?

23. THE OUTSIDE VIEW

24. THE ENGINE OF CAPITALISM

PART IV. CHOICES

25. BERNOULLI’S ERRORS

26. PROSPECT THEORY

27. THE ENDOWMENT EFFECT

28. BAD EVENTS

29. THE FOURFOLD PATTERN

30. RARE EVENTS

31. RISK POLICIES

32. KEEPING SCORE

33. REVERSALS

34. FRAMES AND REALITY

PART V. TWO SELVES

35. TWO SELVES

36. LIFE AS A STORY

37. EXPERIENCED WELL-BEING

38. THINKING ABOUT LIFE

CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX A: JUDGMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY

APPENDIX B: CHOICES, VALUES, AND FRAMES

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOLLOW PENGUIN

Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a professor of public affairs at the 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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