Thinking, Fast and Slow

from the.ken.petersen

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I must make clear, however, before getting into the meat of a review, that this is not my area of expertise (if such exists!). Daniel Kahneman examines the human thought process and splits it into an imaginary, but useful for understanding, two function system. He ...

from browner56

What does it say about the state of an academic discipline when an experimental psychologist wins the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences? As someone whose formal training in the field was based almost exclusively on the "rational man" model, to me that event symbolized nothing short of a dramatic ...

from EmreSevinc

Can you understand the modern world you live in without having any idea about the following terms and the concepts they convey: 'inflation', 'unemployment', 'advertisement', 'capitalism', 'liberalism', 'democracy', 'civil rights', 'energy'? In order to think about some field, to understand some a...

from annith

I first encountered the work of Daniel Kahneman and his collaborator Amos Tversky when I was in graduate school. A student of artificial intelligence, I was keenly interested in the question of how to design systems that can behave "rationally" despite their computational limits. I was thinking a...

from HadriantheBlind

t admitted a bit of doubt when I first started this - the very concepts of Thinking, Fast and Slow, are evident to the student who has had Psych 101 - there are two basic modes of thinking. Automatic processing, which is described as System 1, which is easy, non-attentive, intuitive thinking, and...