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In the picture that emerges from recent research, the intuitive System 1 is more influential than your experience tells you, and it is the se- cret ... Part 1 presents the basic elements of a two-systems approach to judgment and choice.
This section of the book provides a current view, informed by the two-system model, of the key concepts of prospect theory, the model of choice that Amos and I published in 1979. Subsequent chapters address several ways human choices ...
TWO SYSTEMS Psychologists have been intensely interested for several decades in the two modes of thinking evoked by the ... System 1 • operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control.
System 2 • allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration.
System 1 has learned associations between ideas (the capital of France?); it has also learned skills such as reading and understanding nuances of social situations. Some skills, such as finding strong chess moves, are acquired only by ...
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User Review - benkaboo - LibraryThingSummary: Provocative book that suggests we are far less in control of how we think than we (or at least I) had any idea. Things I liked: Lots of evidence and experiments to back up his findings ... Read full review
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User Review - PattyLee - LibraryThingOK, I won't lie to you. Caveats first. I was an English major and I love science. Math, not so much. A couple of the chapters near the end of the book had my eyes crossing, but I did not give up and ... Read full review