Kahneman, Daniel 1934- creator text bibliography nyu New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011 1st ed. monographic eng

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499 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities and also the faults and biases of fast thinking, and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on peoples' thoughts and choices. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Choices. Bernoulli's errors -- Prospect theory -- The endowment effect -- Bad events -- The fourfold pattern -- Rare events -- Risk policies -- Keeping score -- Reversals -- Frames and reality -- Two Selves. Two selves -- Life as a story -- Experienced well-being -- Thinking about life. Daniel Kahneman. Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-481) and index. Thought and thinking Decision making Intuition Reasoning BF441 .K238 2011 153.4/2 9780374275631 (hc : alk. paper) 0374275637 (hc : alk. paper) 2011027143 DLC 120105 20190501175216.0 706020998 eng