Complexity Digest 2011.21 - 19.03

2011/10/28

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

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Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Bookmark and Share

Summary:
Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. (...)