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... SCORE REVERSALS FRAMES AND REALITY PART V. TWO SELVES TWO SELVES LIFE AS A STORY EXPERIENCED WELL-BEING THINKING ABOUT LIFE CONCLUSIONS 199 209 222 234 245 255 269 278 289 300 310 322 334 342 353 363 377 386 391 398 408 THINKING, ...
... had asked ourselves and our respondents. These questions served as demonstrations for the reader, allowing him to recognize how his own thinking was tripped up by cognitive biases. I hope you had such an experience as you read the ...
Our everyday intuitive abilities are no less marvelous than the striking insights of an experienced firefighter or physician—only more common. The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of ...
Part 5 describes recent research that has introduced a distinction between two selves, the experiencing self and the remembering self, which do not have the same interests. For example, we can expose people to two painful experiences.
You experienced slow thinking as you proceeded through a sequence of steps. You first retrieved from memory the cognitive program for multiplication that you learned in school, then you implemented it. Carrying out the computation was a ...
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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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User Review - rynk - LibraryThingA Nobel economist pulls together decades of research in psychology for a big tome with a simple point. We have two brains, one impulsive and one analytical, but both always at work. Professor Kahneman ... Read full review