Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct 25, 2011 - Psychology - 512 pages

*Major New York Times Bestseller
*More than 2.6 million copies sold
*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year
*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year
*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.

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... Amos Tversky) Well- Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology (edited with Edward Diener and Norbert Schwartz) Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (edited with Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky) Attention and Effort THINKING ...
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... Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Reprinted by permission of Science. “Choices, Values, and Frames” from The American Psychologist, copyright © 1983 by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Reprinted by permission of the American ...
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... the central ideas to the lucky day in 1969 when I asked a colleague to speak as a guest to a seminar I was teaching in the De- partment of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Amos 4 THINKING , FAST AND SLOW.
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... Amos was around. He was then thirty- two; I was thirty- five. Amos told the class about an ongoing program of research at the Uni- versity of Michigan that sought to answer this question: Are people good intuitive statisticians? We ...

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About the author (2011)

Daniel Kahneman was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a former 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. He is the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow. He died in 2024

Bibliographic information

TitleThinking, Fast and Slow
AuthorDaniel Kahneman
Editionillustrated
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
ISBN1429969350, 9781429969352
Length512 pages
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Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
  
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