Thinking, Fast and SlowMajor New York Times bestseller |
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... judgments and choices of others, the company's new policies, or a colleague's investment decisions. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others ...
... judgments and actions are appropriate most of the time. As we navigate our lives, we normally allow ourselves to be ... judgments and choices often cause. ORIGINS This book presents my current understanding of judgment and decision ...
... 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 researchers ...
... judgments. We once discovered with great delight that we had identical silly ideas about the future professions of several toddlers we both knew. We could identify the argumentative three-year-old lawyer, the nerdy professor, the ...
... judgment. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions. On another ... judgments. For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among ...