![]() ![]() The third book would offer a set of snapshots of Danny’s personal journey. A second book would provide a contemporary history of the field through the eyes of its leading scholar. One book would describe the broad psychology underlying the judgment and decision-making field. Yet despite having followed Danny’s work quite closely, I feel TFS is a much more complex book than I anticipated: It provides an integrated tale that could easily have been broken down into three different books. I have followed Danny’s work closely since my days as a graduate student, have discussed many issues about the field with him, and even had the opportunity to co-teach a decision-making course with him to executives at a major corporation. ![]() Instead, TFS provides an assessment and integration that goes far beyond these early, comparatively simple questions. ![]() In accepting an invitation to review Thinking, Fast and Slow ( TFS) by Daniel (Danny) Kahneman, I anticipated getting a comprehensive and clear response to these decades-old questions. Do cognitive biases show up in people other than college sophomores? Do people make decision mistakes outside the lab, when real incentives are on the line? Are smart people immune from bias? Are these biases really mistakes? Does experience eliminate biases?Īs a card-carrying member of the biases-and-heuristics crowd of the behavioral decision research field, these are the questions I have continually been asked over the years, despite my belief that they were answered conclusively long ago. ![]()
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