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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Disciplines:
psychology
cognitive science
behavioral economics
psychology/decision-making

Summary

Daniel Kahneman's 2011 synthesis of a career's behavioral economics research — presenting the System 1/System 2 framework for human cognition — the most widely read academic psychology book of the 21st century.

Core Contribution

Creates the System 1/System 2 framework — Thinking, Fast and Slow's organizing structure (System 1 = fast, automatic, emotional; System 2 = slow, deliberate, rational) is the most widely adopted framework in popular cognitive science and has influenced business, policy, and self-help.

Historical Influences

Amos Tversky Amos Tversky and Kahneman's papers

Intellectual Lineage

Daniel Kahneman Farrar Straus Giroux

Allied Works

Nudge Predictably Irrational The Undoing Project

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Behavioral economics popular understanding

Intellectual Posterity

System 1 and System 2 Thinking, Fast and Slow AnchoringWYSIATI

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