Daniel Kahneman

Where we can trust our fast intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking

Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition — which springs from "fast" but broad and emotional thinking — rather than engaging in the slower, harder, but surer thinking that stems from logical, deliberate...