Thinking, Fast and Slow /

Kahneman, Daniel

Thinking, Fast and Slow / Daniel Kahneman - London : Penguin, c2011, 2012. - 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. 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. pt. 2. 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. pt. 3. 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. pt. 4. Choices. Bernoulli's errors --
Prospect theory --
The endowment effect --
Bad events --
The fourfold pattern --
Rare events --
Risk policies --
Keeping score --
Reversals --
Frames and reality. pt. 5. Two selves. Two selves --
Life as a story --
Experienced well-being --
Thinking about life.

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