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In "Thinking, fast and slow" the Nobel laureate Danny Kahneman summarizes his life long work mostly done with his collegue (and Nobel corecipient) Amos Tversky in the field of cognitive psychology and decision making.
There has been an outcrop of books on this topic in the recent years (Ariely and Lehrer being the bigger names) and there is a significant overlap with similar books. However, for the seriously interested I'd recommend to start here. This is the original reference, the user manual f ...more
There has been an outcrop of books on this topic in the recent years (Ariely and Lehrer being the bigger names) and there is a significant overlap with similar books. However, for the seriously interested I'd recommend to start here. This is the original reference, the user manual f ...more
If you haven't yet read this book, stop reading this review and read the book. It is one of the best books yet written.
As well as providing meaningful insights into human cognition and reality, it will inspire most readers to want to become behavioral economists or cognitive psychologists, and the insights into the long running and highly productive professional relationship between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (who died before publication) are the model of how professionals should interact ...more
As well as providing meaningful insights into human cognition and reality, it will inspire most readers to want to become behavioral economists or cognitive psychologists, and the insights into the long running and highly productive professional relationship between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (who died before publication) are the model of how professionals should interact ...more
This is a simply brilliant book that explores the field known as 'Heuristics and Biases', which Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky invented together. The field is fascinating, not only for its insight into human cognition, but for the practical benefits of understanding how your thinking works.
The book works by explaining psychological studies done and looking at their implications for our reasoning and decision making processes, and building up a picture of how our mind works. This is done in a ...more
The book works by explaining psychological studies done and looking at their implications for our reasoning and decision making processes, and building up a picture of how our mind works. This is done in a ...more
Finished all but part 4 (Natural of decision making by rational agents, i.e. section 25-34).
A illustrative tour toward the models of human mind. The book presents (quoting the final chapter "Conclusions") two fictitious characters of human mind (the intuitive System 1 and deliberate but lazy System 2), two species (Econs that lives in land of theory, and Humans who acts in the real world), and two selves (the experiencing self that does the living, and the remembering self that make judgements ...more
A illustrative tour toward the models of human mind. The book presents (quoting the final chapter "Conclusions") two fictitious characters of human mind (the intuitive System 1 and deliberate but lazy System 2), two species (Econs that lives in land of theory, and Humans who acts in the real world), and two selves (the experiencing self that does the living, and the remembering self that make judgements ...more
Jan 06, 2012
Vinayak
marked it as to-read
Oct 16, 2012
Chris Aldrich
marked it as finish-later
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May 07, 2015
Jorge David
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Aug 19, 2016
Chris Aldrich
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Masha
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