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Unfair caricatures are just one of the side effects of what psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman calls “System 1”—the fast, instinctive, emotional system of our brain that tries to make most of our decisions while requiring the least amount of energy. This system relies on habits of thought and quick, reliable shortcut strategies to get thing
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Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
In general, the higher the predictability, the wider the range of predicted values.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Brain recordings also indicate that buying at especially low prices is a pleasurable event.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
One of Klein’s colleagues, psychologist Daniel Kahneman, studied human decision making from the “heuristics and biases” model of human judgment. His findings could hardly have been more different from Klein’s. When Kahneman probed the judgments of highly trained experts, he often found that experience had not helped at all. Even worse, it frequentl
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Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The text explores two perspectives on well-being: the experiencing self and the remembering self, highlighting their differences, implications for measuring happiness, and the challenges in comparing well-being across cultures.
kahneman.scholar.princeton.eduKahneman emphasizes that often we engage System 2 not to make a decision but instead to rationalize a conclusion reached by System 1.