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Social scientists are no exception; they rely on a view of human nature that provides the background of most discussions of specific behaviors but is rarely questioned. Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about ...
A concluding chapter explores, in reverse order, the implications of three distinctions drawn in the book: between the experiencing and the re- membering selves, between the conception of agents in classical economics and in behavioral ...
Monitor the appropriateness ofyour behavior in a social situation. • Count the occurrences ofthe letter • a in a page of text. Tell someone your phone number. • Park in a narrow space (for most people except garage attendants).
Everyone has some awareness of the limited capacity of attention, and our social behavior makes allowances for these limitations. When the driver of a car is overtaking a truck on a narrow road, for example, adult passengers quite ...
... behavior—the control that keeps you polite when you are angry, and alert when you are driving at night. System 2 is mobilized to increased effort when it detects THINKING, FAST AND SLOW 24.
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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