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Our subjective judgments were biased: we were far too willing to believe research findings based on inadequate evidence and prone to collect too few observations in our own research. The goal of our study was to examine whether other ...
them interesting in their own right and because they provided evidence for the heuristics ofjudgment. We did not ask ourselves whether all intuitive judgments under uncertainty are produced by the heuristics we studied; it is now clear ...
... task performing poorly in cognitive tasks and logical decision making The evidence is persuasive: activities that impose high demands on System 2 require self-control, and the exertion of self-control is depleting and unpleasant.
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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
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| Title | Thinking, Fast and Slow |
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1429969350, 9781429969352 |
| Length | 512 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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