Thinking, Fast and SlowMajor New York Times bestseller |
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... ofthe title. Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive thought—the expert and the heuristic—as well as the ... of the capital of Russia. The distinction between fast and slow thinking has been explored by many psychologists over ...
... ofthe world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the ... of The Black Swan. I hope for watercooler conversations that intelligently explore the lessons that can be learned ...
... ofthe moment. System 2 is mobilized when a question arises for which System 1 does not offer an answer, as probably happened to you when you encountered the multiplication problem 17 × 24. You can also feel a surge of conscious ...
... of the metronome and instructed the subject to repeat or transform the digits one by one, maintaining the same rhythm. We soon discovered that the size ofthe pupil varied second by second, reflecting the changing demands ofthe task. The ...
... ofthe digit task, whether the letter K had appeared at any time during the trial. The main finding was that the ability to detect and report the target letter changed in the course of the 10 seconds of the exercise. The observers almost ...