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“A tour de force. . . Kahneman’s book is a must read for anyone interested in either human behavior or investing. He clearly shows that while we like to think of ourselves as rational in our decision making, the truth is we are subject to many biases. At least being aware of them will give you a better chance of avoiding them, or at least making fewer of them.”—Larry Swedroe, CBS News

“Daniel Kahneman demonstrates forcefully in his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, how easy it is for humans to swerve away from rationality.”—Christopher Shea, The Washington Post

“An outstanding book, distinguished by beauty and clarity of detail, precision of presentation and gentleness of manner. Its truths are open to all those whose System 2 is not completely defunct. I have hardly touched on its richness.”— Galen Strawson, The Guardian

“Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman’s contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being . . . A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply humane. If you can read only one book this year, read this one.”— Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail

“A sweeping, compelling tale of just how easily our brains are bamboozled, bringing in both his own research and that of numerous psychologists, economists, and other experts...Kahneman has a remarkable ability to take decades worth of research and distill from it what would be important and interesting for a lay audience...Thinking, Fast and Slow is an immensely important book. Many science books are uneven, with a useful or interesting chapter too often followed by a dull one. Not so here. With rare exceptions, the entire span of this weighty book is fascinating and applicable to day-to-day life. Everyone should read Thinking, Fast and Slow.” —Jesse Singal, Boston Globe

“We must be grateful to Kahneman for giving us in this book a joyful understanding of the practical side of our personalities.” —Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books

“It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is recounting his collaboration with Tversky . . . So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky’s work ‘will be remembered hundreds of years from now,’ and that it is ‘a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.’ They are, Brooks said, ‘like the Lewis and Clark of the mind’ . . . By the time I got to the end of Thinking, Fast and Slow, my skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely interested in Kahenman’s takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question it is this: If you've had 10,000 hours of training in a predictable, rapid-feedback environment—chess, firefighting, anesthesiology—then blink. In all other cases, think.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Ask around and you hear pretty much the same thing. 'Kahneman is the most influential psychologist since Sigmund Freud,' says Christopher Chabris, a professor of psychology at Union College, in New York. 'No one else has had such a broad impact on so many fields' . . . It now seems inevitable that Kahneman, who made his reputation by ignoring or defying conventional wisdom, is about to be anointed the intellectual guru of our economically irrational times.”— Evan R. Goldstein, The Chronicle of Higher Education

“There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow . . . This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read.”—William Easterly, Financial Times

“[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd.”— Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair

“Absorbingly articulate and infinitely intelligent . . . What's most enjoyable and compelling about Thinking, Fast and Slow is that it's so utterly, refreshingly anti-Gladwellian. There is nothing pop about Kahneman's psychology, no formulaic story arc, no beating you over the head with an artificial, buzzword-encrusted Big Idea. It's just the wisdom that comes from five decades of honest, rigorous scientific work, delivered humbly yet brilliantly, in a way that will forever change the way you think about thinking.”—Maria Popova, The Atlantic

“I will never think about thinking quite the same. [Thinking, Fast and Slow] is a monumental achievement.”—Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg/Businessweek

“Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be.” —The Economist

“[Kahneman’s] disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed the way that we think about thinking . . . We like to see ourselves as a Promethean species, uniquely endowed with the gift of reason. But Mr. Kahneman’s simple experiments reveal a very different mind, stuffed full of habits that, in most situations, lead us astray.” —Jonah Lehrer, The Wall Street Journal

“[A] tour de force of psychological insight, research explication and compelling narrative that brings together in one volume the high points of Mr. Kahneman's notable contributions, over five decades, to the study of human judgment, decision-making and choice . . . Thanks to the elegance and force of his ideas, and the robustness of the evidence he offers for them, he has helped us to a new understanding of our divided minds—and our whole selves.” —Christoper F. Chabris, The Wall Street Journal

“The ramifications of Kahenman’s work are wide, extending into education, business, marketing, politics . . . and even happiness research. Call his field “psychonomics,” the hidden reasoning behind our choices. Thinking, Fast and Slow is essential reading for anyone with a mind.” —Kyle Smith, The New York Post

“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.” —David Brooks, The New York Times

“Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions.” —Jacek Debiec, Nature

“With Kahneman’s expert help, readers may understand this mix of psychology and economics better than most accountants, therapists, or elected representatives. VERDICT A stellar accomplishment, a book for everyone who likes to think and wants to do it better.” —Library Journal

“The mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and Effort) posits a brain governed by two clashing decision-making processes. The largely unconscious System 1, he contends, makes intuitive snap judgments based on emotion, memory, and hard-wired rules of thumb; the painfully conscious System 2 laboriously checks the facts and does the math, but is so "lazy" and distractible that it usually defers to System 1. Kahneman uses this scheme to frame a scintillating discussion of his findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, and of the ingenious experiments that tease out the irrational, self-contradictory logics that underlie our choices. We learn why we mistake statistical noise for cohere...

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Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title

One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year

One of The Wall Steet Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011

Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest

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, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book.

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman 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. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.

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Ein Schulgeheimnis des kognitiven Apparates 3. Februar 2012

Von Gerhard Mersmann TOP 500 REZENSENT VINE™-PRODUKTTESTER

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Der 1934 in Tel Aviv geborene Daniel Kahneman, heute emeritierter Professor verschiedener US-amerikanischer Universitäten und Träger des Wirtschafts-Nobelpreises von 2002, hat ein allgemein verständliches Buch vorgelegt, um Zugang zu Fragen seines lebenslangen wissenschaftlichen Forschens zu ermöglichen. Das wäre an sich nichts, was Spannung erzeugen müsste, handelte es sich nicht um Fragestellungen, die uns alle, täglich, stündlich, in jedem Augenblick beträfen. In seinem Buch Thinking, Fast and Slow, gibt Kahneman einen auch aus didaktischer Sicht gelungenen Einblick in die Forschung über das Wie und Warum menschlicher Entscheidungen.

In insgesamt fünf Kapiteln zeichnet er das Terrain. Er beginnt mit den zwei stereotypen Systemen der menschlichen Erkenntnis, dem emotional und dem rational gesteuerten. In einigen Fallbeispielen zeigt Kahneman auf, wie das menschliche Hirn bei welchen Reizen operiert und warum wir schneller sind, wenn die emotionalen und langsamer, wenn die rationalen Programme laufen. Die Reinform des Gebrauchs des kognitiven Apparates existiert nie, immer mischen sich die beiden Muster der Welterklärung, die Steuerung liegt aber in einer Hand. Sehr gelungen ist die Präsentation der beiden Systeme. Um uns zu System I, der Emotionalität zu führen, benutzt Kahneman das Bild eines gestressten Frauengesichts und für System II, die Rationalität, präsentiert er dem Leser den Anblick einer mathematischen Formel.

Es folgt ein Kapitel über heuristische Systeme, in dem es um Anker, die Überlegenheit der Kausalität in der statistischen Welt und die Erotik schlichter Deduktionen geht. Das Kapitel über die Selbstüberschätzung im kognitiven Prozess ist nahezu eine Fortsetzung der Kritischen Theorie in Bezug auf die Entstehung von Ideologie und die Ausführungen über die Wahlmöglichkeiten zwischen Res publica und Ego ist eine ebenso gelungene wie gesellschaftskritische Reflexion. Das letzte Kapitel über die beiden Selbst individualisiert noch einmal die Optionen und konjugiert sie in ihrer ganzen gesellschaftlichen Tragweite. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Frage, welchen kognitiven Systems ich mich bediene, sondern auch, ob ich mich einer gesellschaftlich-sozialen oder individuell-hedonistischen Logik bediene.

Das Spannende an Daniel Kahnemans Buch ist das, was sich hinter dem vordergründigen, seine wissenschaftlichen Studien Beschreibenden verbirgt. Dabei geht es um Welterklärung wie Gesellschaftskritik gleichermaßen. Der Leser erfährt nicht nur, welchen instrumentellen Hintergrund konkrete Entscheidungen haben, sondern auch, welche Motivlage das Ergebnis der Entscheidung in seiner Qualität prädestiniert. Und Kahneman bleibt da nicht in der praktischen Folgenlosigkeit der Abstraktion. Das materielle Leitmotiv kognitiver Prozesse im Kapitalismus beraubt, so der einstige Professor aus Berkeley, das Individuum seiner Fähigkeit, in Kreativität und Gestaltung den Zustand des Glücks zu finden. Chapeau! Chapeau!

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How Decisions Vary from "Rational" Models and How to Avoid Decision Mistakes 8. Februar 2012

Von Donald Mitchell TOP 500 REZENSENT

Format:Taschenbuch

"And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
But with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked." -- Isaiah 11:3-4 (NKJV)

Economists have long favored describing people according to a standard of highly rational, financially maximizing thought. Those with a little more imagination realized that money isn't everything and allowed for personal preferences to play a role in assigning value. Behavioral psychologists, such as Professor Kahneman, have been poking big holes in the economic models in recent decades so that the rational economic person perspective increasingly looks more like tattered cheesecloth than anything you would want to wear in public.

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Professor Kahneman presents the results of many decision-making experiments to shed light on how decisions are typically made, what influences those decisions, and how the decisions could be improved. If you haven't read about these experiments, I'm sure you'll be fascinated. Most are presented in a way that allows you to test your own mental processes and to see how your reactions compare to what most people do. That adds to the fun.

Some of the more interesting findings are that we are more heavily affected by peak experiences, memories of how things ended, and whether we "won" or "lost" than we are by the economics or hedonic pleasure of something. Further, we're likely to be so overly optimistic that we won't see the cliff until we are launched head over heels over it.

I'm sure that somewhere in this book you'll find a chapter or two that will highlight something that bothers you about your own decision making, and you'll come away with some good ideas for how to do better next time.

The book's main drawback is that Professor Kahneman is perhaps a little more offended by peoples' inability to appreciate statistics and to do math in the right context than he might be. That section was a bit too long and precious.

I especially enjoyed the conclusions where a lot of standard assumptions about how to accomplish things are politely, but firmly, challenged.

Bravo, Professor Kahneman!

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Virtually perfect 9. Januar 2012

Von history nut

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Kahneman presents in this fascinating book what current cutting edge psychology has to say about how humans form judgements and make decisions. The focus is on the limitations of intuitive thinking and how they can be overcome by activating the slow and controlled thinking the human mind is also capable of.
The author is one of the world's leading psychologists and his writing is always understandable without compromising scientific accuracy. His book might be the best available on the subject.