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PSYCHOLOGY · 2011

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

A landmark tour of intuition, deliberation and predictable judgment errors.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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9780374533557
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Judgment · Bias · Decision-making
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Kahneman organizes decades of research around two modes of thought: fast, automatic intuition and slower, effortful reasoning. The book examines how heuristics help people function while also producing systematic errors in prediction, risk and choice.

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It gives readers a practical vocabulary for uncertainty and bias. It is most useful not as a promise to eliminate error, but as a guide to designing decisions that are less dependent on confidence alone.

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Readers value the research stories and broad influence. The book is demanding, and later replication debates mean individual studies should not all be treated as equally settled even when the larger framework remains important.

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