Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

by Chip Heath

Robin Hogarth, one of the researchers who have done the most to clarify situations where intuition does and doesn’t work,

Professor Rick Larrick of Duke University has a compact summary of the kinds of environments that have been reliably found to develop good intuition: He calls them “video game worlds”—they are environments that provide quick, unambiguous, unalterable feedback.

Beck’s marriage diaries. See Aaron T. Beck (1989), Love Is Never Enough (New York: Harper Perennial). The Goldstein study is described on page 248, and the marriage-diary exercise for Ted and Karen is on pages 245–46.