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Thinking, fast and slow / Daniel Kahneman

By: Kahneman, DanielMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2011. Description: 499 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780374533557Subject(s): Thought and thinking | Decision making | Intuition | ReasoningDDC classification: 153.42 KAH
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Contents:

Part I. Two Systems:
1. The characters of the story
2. Attention and effort
3. The lazy controller
4. The associative machine
5. Cognitive ease
6. Norms, surprises, and causes
7. A machine for jumping to conclusions
8. How judgments happen
9. Answering an easier question

Part II. Heuristics and Biases
10. The law of small numbers
11. Anchors
12. The science of availability
13. Availability, emotion, and risk
14. Tom W's specialty
15. Linda: less is more
16. Causes trump statistics
17. Regression to the mean
18. Taming intuitive predictions

Part III. Overconfidence
19. 19. The illusion of understanding
20. 20. The illusion of validity
21. Intuitions vs: formulas
22. Expert intuition: when can we trust it?
23. The outside view
24. The engine of capitalism

Part IV. Choices
25. Bernoulli's errors
26. Prospect theory
27. The endowment effect
28. Bad events
29. The fourfold pattern
30. Rare events
31. Risk policies
32. Keeping score
33. Reversals
34. Frames and reality

Part V. Two Selves
35. Two selves
36. Life as a story
37. Experienced well-being
38. Thinking about life

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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