Thinking, Fast and Slow Hardback - 2011
by Daniel Kahneman
Two systems drive the way humans think and make choices: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, 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.
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Readers regard Daniel Kahneman’s study of human judgment as a landmark synthesis: a lucid tour of the mind’s two-track machinery and a bracing catalogue of biases that skew everyday decisions. The book’s core insights—System 1 versus System 2, loss aversion, framing, regression to the mean—feel both intuitively resonant and empirically grounded, and many found the early chapters especially revelatory. Yet admiration often came with caveats: the prose, while clear, is exhaustive; the pacing drags; and the later sections can feel repetitive or overly technical. Some questioned the practical takeaway, noting that the book is more a map of our errors than a manual for fixing them, and a minority flagged doubts about certain social-psychology findings. Even so, the consensus holds that it is an influential, mind-opening work that reshapes how readers think about thinking, even if it demands patience to finish.
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- Title Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Author Daniel Kahneman
- Binding Hardback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Publication date 2011-10-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780374275631 / 0374275637
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.8 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 4.57 cm)
- Category Psychology
- Library of Congress subjects Decision making, Intuition
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011027143
- Dewey Decimal Code 153.42
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/2011, Page 4
- Choice, 06/01/2012, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2011, Page 0
- Library Journal, 10/15/2011, Page 96
- Men's Journal, 12/01/2011, Page 42
- New York Review of Books, 12/22/2011, Page 40
- New York Times Book Review, 11/27/2011, Page 16
- New Yorker (The), 11/14/2011, Page 84
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/04/2011, Page 26
- Publishers Weekly, 10/03/2011, Page 0
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