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BookPublication 2009How We Decide
This book explores how neuroscience is helping people to produce better television shows, win more …
This book explores how neuroscience is helping people to produce better television shows, win more football games, and improve military intelligence. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either a rational one, based on logic and deliberation, or an emotional one, based on intuition. As scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they are discovering that whenever we make a decision, the mind uses a blend of…
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BookPublication 2013Thinking, Fast and Slow
This book by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman explains two systems of thinking: one fast, …
This book by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman explains two systems of thinking: one fast, intuitive, and emotional, and the other slow, deliberative, and logical. Kahneman explains how these systems shape our judgments and decisions, using examples ranging from corporate strategies to vacation planning. The book provides practical and enlightening insights to help people make good choices, including when to trust intuition, how to tap into the benefits of slow thinking, and what techniques can…
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BookPublication 2010Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
This book explores the “hidden forces” that shape decisions as an argument against the common …
This book explores the “hidden forces” that shape decisions as an argument against the common assumption that people act in fundamentally rational ways. From drinking coffee to losing weight, people consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. Ariely shows that such misguided behaviors are systematic and predictable or “predictably irrational.”
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BookPublication 2007Thinking and Deciding
This book is an essential reference work on the science of decision-making and a key …
This book is an essential reference work on the science of decision-making and a key resource for students and scholars in a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, law, medicine, and business. It addresses questions about how we think, what keeps up from thinking in certain ways, and how we can improve our thinking to make better decisions. This edition covers the origin and development of the field’s fundamental concepts and improves upon earlier editions…
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BookPublication 2013Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets
This book presents original ideas from leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who have radically expanded …
This book presents original ideas from leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who have radically expanded our understanding of human thought by developing the field of behavioral economics to inform a new science of decision-making. The book includes articles from these experts that cover a wide range of topics about human intuition and unconscious thinking, the applications and limitations of statistics in decisions, the scientific underpinnings of human nature, and other subjects relevant to decision-making, problem-solving,…
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BookPublication 2015Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
This book draws from the experiences of some of the most successful forecasters in America …
This book draws from the experiences of some of the most successful forecasters in America to provide an account of how predictions are made in settings as diverse as hurricanes, baseball, poker, and the stock market. The author, a leading forecaster and forecasting blogger, developed an innovative system for predicting baseball performance and predicted with near perfection the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. From a wealth of personal knowledge and interviews with other experts, he…
Government/Law | Economics/Finance | Decision Psychology | Probability/Bayes | Business/Industry | Culture/Society
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