Thinking, fast and slow

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Kahneman, Daniel, 1934- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
Edition1st pbk. ed.
Subjects
ISBN9780374533557 0-374-53355-5
Physical Description499 s. : il. ; 24 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Two Systems. The characters of the story ; Attention and effort ; The lazy controller ; The associative machine ; Cognitive ease ; Norms, surprises, and causes ; A machine for jumping to conclusions ; How judgments happen ; Answering an easier question
  • Heuristics and Biases. The law of small numbers ; Anchors ; The science of availability ; Availability, emotion, and risk ; Tom W's specialty ; Linda: less is more ; Causes trump statistics ; Regression to the mean ; Taming intuitive predictions
  • Overconfidence. The illusion of understanding ; The illusion of validity ; Intuitions vs. formulas ; Expert intuition: when can we trust it? ; The outside view ; The engine of capitalism
  • Choices. Bernoulli's errors ; Prospect theory ; The endowment effect ; Bad events ; The fourfold pattern ; Rare events ; Risk policies ; Keeping score ; Reversals ; Frames and reality
  • Two Selves. Two selves ; Life as a story ; Experienced well-being ; Thinking about life
  • Judgment under uncertainty
  • Choices, values, and frames