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"Thinking, fast and slow"

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London; Allen Lane; 2011Description: 499pISBN:
  • 9781846146060
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.42 KAH
Summary: In thinking, fast and slow, kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices one system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative, and more logical kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour the importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions drawing on a lifetimes experimental experience, kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking he offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our professional and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble thinking, fast and slow will transform the way you take decisions and experience the world.
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In thinking, fast and slow, kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices one system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative, and more logical kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour the importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions drawing on a lifetimes experimental experience, kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking he offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our professional and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble thinking, fast and slow will transform the way you take decisions and experience the world.

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