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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 2009Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
This book explores decision-making through the lens of behavioral economics to explain why we make …
This book explores decision-making through the lens of behavioral economics to explain why we make poor choices about things that matter, including food, financial investments, health, and education. Behavioral economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein offer insights on how biases that influence decisions in everyday life and public policy are developed through our thought pathways and settings. The authors suggest that understanding the sources of bias will “nudge” us toward making the…
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BookPublication 2016Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
This book chronicles the friendship of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky whose collaboration …
This book chronicles the friendship of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky whose collaboration forty years ago on a series of original papers laid the foundation for the field of behavioral economics. Described as one of the great partnerships in modern science, the extraordinary friendship of these two men ignited a revolution that has altered our perception of reality, giving rise to Big Data studies, advances in evidence-based medicine, and new approaches to government…
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BookPublication 2017Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction
This book provides a succinct but comprehensive introduction to behavioral economics. It describes the foundations …
This book provides a succinct but comprehensive introduction to behavioral economics. It describes the foundations and development of the field, its contributions to a new understanding about how the human mind is wired to make decisions, and why it has upended prevailing economic theories. Examples from everyday life are used to illustrate the roles played in decision-making by social influences, personality, mood, and emotions and to show how these influences may result in decisions that…
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BookPublication 2015Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
This book offers practical guidance for making good choices about everyday matters such as where …
This book offers practical guidance for making good choices about everyday matters such as where to live, when to look for a new job, which person should be hired, or what business strategy should be pursued. The authors explain that few people are equipped with useful decision-making skills and offer a proven, straightforward, and flexible roadmap and procedural tools for making better and more impactful decisions and achieving goals in all aspects of life. The…
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BookPublication 2009Value-Focused Thinking
This book explains how recognizing and articulating fundamental values leads to the identification of decision …
This book explains how recognizing and articulating fundamental values leads to the identification of decision opportunities and the creation of better alternatives in business, government, and personal contexts. This value-focused thinking approach offers a method for quantifying objectives through simple value models that can be used to collect information, improve communication, facilitate collective decision-making, and guide strategic thinking. The book provides examples of how value-focused thinking has been applied to managing a multibillion-dollar utility company,…
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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 2012How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code and Emerged from Two Centuries of Controversy
This book presents Bayes' rule to the general reader, providing a riveting account of an …
This book presents Bayes' rule to the general reader, providing a riveting account of an idea that has generated controversy in statistics and probability theory for over two hundred years. The rule is described in basic terms as a theorem using prior knowledge to enhance the probability of an event in conditions of uncertainty and scant information. The book explores Baye’s rule from its 18th century origins to the present, chronicling its emergence from 150…
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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…
Decision Psychology | Probability/Bayes | Business/Industry | Culture/Society | Economics/Finance | Government/Law
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