Thinking, Fast And Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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The long-awaited work by “one of the most influential psychologists in history and certainly the most important psychologist alive today” (Steven Pinker). Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current... more
About Daniel Kahneman
Published: October 25, 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Business & Economics. Non-fiction. 512 pages
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- All Critics: 18
- Positive: 15
- Negative: 3
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The New York Times | 25 Nov 2011
Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it.
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The Guardian | 13 Dec 2011
It is an outstanding book, distinguished by beauty and clarity of detail, precision of presentation and gentleness of manner.
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Business Week | 27 Oct 2011
. . .Kahneman’s greater achievement is to build a framework for how, or why, the mind reasons as it does.
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The Washington Post | 16 Dec 2012
. . .wider-view thoughts are left to a sketchy, 11-page concluding chapter.
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Association for Psychological Science
clarifies that we now know a tremendous amount about the underlying mechanisms for the effects in the behavioral decision research field,
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Slate | 26 Oct 2011
There's little in Thinking, Fast and Slow that hasn't been said before, in books and journals and lots of magazine articles.
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The Independent | 18 Nov 2011
It sometimes requires more work than it should. . .But that is because much more than a single lifetime's slow thought has gone into it.
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Financial Times | 5 Nov 2011
There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Sep 2011
Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds.
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The Boston Globe | 4 Dec 2011
Kahneman has a remarkable ability to take decades worth of research and distill from it what would be important and interesting for a lay audience.
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Scientific American | 27 Jan 2012
Stumbling into your own sloppy thinking makes their discoveries all the more personal.
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Huffington Post | 15 Dec 2011
. . .he fails to describe the discoveries. . .about the psychology of risk perception... the way we make choices about threats to our health.
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Publishers Weekly | 3 Oct 2011
. . .a lucid, marvelously readable guide to spotting--and correcting--our biased misunderstandings of the world.
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Chicago Tribune | 12 Dec 2012
. . .a highly readable and richly empirical study of our "mental machinery". . .
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Seattle Weekly | 5 Jan 2012
The book is far more profound than a few bullet points can convey. . .
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Amerian Scientist
In a masterly fashion he has woven several strands of insight into a finely detailed tapestry.
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The Wall Street Journal | 22 Oct 2011
It is almost defiantly focused on the science, with a leavening of memoir and personal observation.
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The Wilson Quarterly
. . .a genial survey of human irrationality that serves as an admirable summa of the author’s extraordinary life’s work.
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