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2011 book by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Dull

Hardcover edition
Writer	Daniel Kahneman
Land	United States
Language	English language
Subject	Psychology
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication appointment	2011
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback), sound
Pages	499 pages
ISBN	978-0374275631
OCLC	706020998

Thinking, Fast and Irksome is a 2022 book past Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman.

The volume'south main thesis is that of a dichotomy betwixt ii modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System ii" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates rational and non-rational motivations or triggers associated with each type of thinking process, and how they complement each other, starting with Kahneman's ain enquiry on loss disfavor. From framing choices to people'due south tendency to replace a difficult question with ane which is piece of cake to answer, the book summarizes several decades of inquiry to advise that people have also much confidence in human judgement.^[ane] This data is summarized from decades of Kahneman's enquiry, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky.^{[2] [3]} Information technology covers dissimilar phases of his career: his early on piece of work concerning cognitive biases, his piece of work on prospect theory and happiness, and with the Israel Defense Forces.

The integrity of many of the priming studies cited in the book have been called into question in the midst of the psychological replication crunch, although the results of Kahneman's own studies accept replicated.^{[ citation needed ]}

The volume was a New York Times bestseller^[4] and won the 2022 winner of the National Academies Communication Accolade for best creative piece of work that helps the public understanding of topics in behavioral science, engineering and medicine.^[5]

Summary [edit]

Ii systems [edit]

In the book'south commencement department, Kahneman describes 2 unlike ways the brain forms thoughts:

• System one: Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, unconscious. Examples (in social club of complexity) of things organization 1 tin do:
  • determine that an object is at a greater altitude than some other
  • localize the source of a specific sound
  • complete the phrase "war and ..."
  • brandish disgust when seeing a gruesome prototype
  • solve two+2=?
  • read text on a billboard
  • drive a car on an empty road
  • think of a good chess motion (if yous're a chess master)
  • understand simple sentences
  • associate the description 'tranquility and structured person with an heart for details' with a specific chore
• System 2: Tedious, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious. Examples of things system ii tin exercise:
  • fix yourself for the start of a dart
  • direct your attention towards the clowns at the circus
  • direct your attention towards someone at a loud party
  • expect for the woman with the grey pilus
  • try to recognize a audio
  • sustain a faster-than-normal walking rate
  • determine the appropriateness of a particular behavior in a social setting
  • count the number of A'due south in a sure text
  • give someone your telephone number
  • park into a tight parking space
  • decide the cost/quality ratio of ii washing machines
  • determine the validity of a complex logical reasoning
  • solve 17 × 24

Kahneman describes a number of experiments which purport to examine the differences between these two thought systems and how they arrive at unlike results fifty-fifty given the same inputs. Terms and concepts include coherence, attention, laziness, clan, jumping to conclusions, WYSIATI (What you run across is all there is), and how 1 forms judgments. The Organization one vs. Arrangement 2 debate includes the reasoning or lack thereof for human being decision making, with big implications for many areas including law and marketplace research.^[six]

Heuristics and biases [edit]

The second section offers explanations for why humans struggle to call up statistically. It begins by documenting a variety of situations in which nosotros either arrive at binary decisions or neglect to associate precisely reasonable probabilities with outcomes. Kahneman explains this phenomenon using the theory of heuristics. Kahneman and Tversky originally discussed this topic in their 1974 article titled Judgment Under Dubiety: Heuristics and Biases.^[seven]

Kahneman uses heuristics to affirm that System 1 thinking involves associating new information with existing patterns, or thoughts, rather than creating new patterns for each new experience. For case, a child who has only seen shapes with directly edges might perceive an octagon when first viewing a circle. As a legal metaphor, a judge limited to heuristic thinking would merely exist able to call up of similar historical cases when presented with a new dispute, rather than considering the unique aspects of that case. In addition to offer an explanation for the statistical problem, the theory also offers an explanation for human being biases.

Anchoring [edit]

The "anchoring consequence" names a trend to be influenced by irrelevant numbers. Shown greater/lesser numbers, experimental subjects gave greater/lesser responses.^[ii] Equally an example, most people, when asked whether Gandhi was more than 114 years quondam when he died, will provide a much greater estimate of his age at death than others who were asked whether Gandhi was more or less than 35 years quondam. Experiments show that people's behavior is influenced, much more than they are enlightened, by irrelevant information.

Availability [edit]

The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that occurs when people make judgments about the probability of events on the basis of how easy it is to think of examples. The availability heuristic operates on the notion that, "if y'all can think of it, it must be important". The availability of consequences associated with an activeness is related positively to perceptions of the magnitude of the consequences of that action. In other words, the easier information technology is to recall the consequences of something, the greater we perceive these consequences to exist. Sometimes, this heuristic is beneficial, but the frequencies at which events come to mind are usually not accurate representations of the probabilities of such events in real life.^{[eight] [9]}

Exchange [edit]

Organisation one is prone to substituting a simpler question for a difficult 1. In what Kahneman terms their "all-time-known and about controversial" experiment, "the Linda problem," subjects were told about an imaginary Linda, young, single, outspoken, and intelligent, who, as a student, was very concerned with discrimination and social justice. They asked whether it was more probable that Linda is a banking company teller or that she is a bank teller and an agile feminist. The overwhelming response was that "feminist depository financial institution teller" was more than probable than "banking company teller," violating the laws of probability. (Every feminist banking concern teller is a banking concern teller). In this case System one substituted the easier question, "Is Linda a feminist?", neglecting the occupation qualifier. An culling interpretation is that the subjects added an unstated cultural implicature to the issue that the other answer unsaid an sectional or, that Linda was not a feminist.^[2]

Optimism and loss aversion [edit]

Kahneman writes of a "pervasive optimistic bias", which "may well exist the most meaning of the cerebral biases." This bias generates the illusion of command: the illusion that we have substantial command of our lives.

A natural experiment reveals the prevalence of 1 kind of unwarranted optimism. The planning fallacy is the trend to overestimate benefits and underestimate costs, impelling people to brainstorm risky projects. In 2002, American kitchen remodeling was expected on average to toll $18,658, merely actually cost $38,769.^[two]

To explain overconfidence, Kahneman introduces the concept he terms What You See Is All In that location Is (WYSIATI). This theory states that when the heed makes decisions, it deals primarily with Known Knowns, phenomena it has observed already. It rarely considers Known Unknowns, phenomena that it knows to exist relevant but about which information technology does not have data. Finally it appears oblivious to the possibility of Unknown Unknowns, unknown phenomena of unknown relevance.

He explains that humans fail to take into business relationship complexity and that their understanding of the world consists of a small and necessarily un-representative set of observations. Furthermore, the mind more often than not does not business relationship for the role of chance and therefore falsely assumes that a time to come result will be similar to a past event.

Framing [edit]

Framing is the context in which choices are presented. Experiment: subjects were asked whether they would opt for surgery if the "survival" charge per unit is 90 per centum, while others were told that the mortality rate is 10 percent. The first framing increased credence, fifty-fifty though the situation was no different.^[10]

Sunk toll [edit]

Rather than consider the odds that an incremental investment would produce a positive return, people tend to "throw skilful money later bad" and continue investing in projects with poor prospects that have already consumed significant resources. In role this is to avoid feelings of regret.^[10]

Overconfidence [edit]

This part (part Iii, sections 19–24) of the book is dedicated to the undue confidence in what the mind believes it knows. It suggests that people ofttimes overestimate how much they understand about the world and underestimate the role of chance in item. This is related to the excessive certainty of retrospect, when an event seems to be understood later it has occurred or developed. Kahneman's opinions concerning overconfidence are influenced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.^[eleven]

Choices [edit]

In this section Kahneman returns to economics and expands his seminal work on Prospect Theory. He discusses the trend for problems to be addressed in isolation and how, when other reference points are considered, the option of that reference point (called a frame) has a disproportionate effect on the outcome. This department also offers advice on how some of the shortcomings of Organization ane thinking tin can exist avoided.

Prospect theory [edit]

Kahneman developed prospect theory, the basis for his Nobel prize, to account for experimental errors he noticed in Daniel Bernoulli's traditional utility theory.^[12] Co-ordinate to Kahneman, Utility Theory makes logical assumptions of economical rationality that practise not correspond people's actual choices, and does non take into account cerebral biases.

Ane example is that people are loss-balky: they are more likely to human action to avert a loss than to achieve a gain. Another example is that the value people place on a change in probability (e.thousand., of winning something) depends on the reference point: people seem to place greater value on a change from 0% to x% (going from impossibility to possibility) than from, say, 45% to 55%, and they place the greatest value of all on a modify from ninety% to 100% (going from possibility to certainty). This occurs despite the fact that by traditional utility theory all three changes give the same increase in utility. Consistent with loss-aversion, the club of the first and third of those is reversed when the event is presented as losing rather than winning something: there, the greatest value is placed on eliminating the probability of a loss to 0.

Afterward the book'south publication, the Periodical of Economic Literature published a discussion of its parts apropos prospect theory,^[13] every bit well as an analysis of the iv fundamental factors on which it is based.^[14]

Two selves [edit]

The fifth part of the book describes recent bear witness which introduces a distinction between ii selves, the 'experiencing cocky' and 'remembering self'.^[fifteen] Kahneman proposed an alternative measure that assessed pleasure or pain sampled from moment to moment, and then summed over time. Kahneman termed this "experienced" well-beingness and fastened it to a separate "cocky." He distinguished this from the "remembered" well-being that the polls had attempted to mensurate. He found that these two measures of happiness diverged.^[sixteen]

Life every bit a story [edit]

The author'due south significant discovery was that the remembering self does not care virtually the elapsing of a pleasant or unpleasant experience. Instead, it retrospectively rates an feel by the maximum or minimum of the feel, and by the fashion it ends. The remembering self dominated the patient's ultimate conclusion.

"Odd as it may seem," Kahneman writes, "I am my remembering self, and the experiencing cocky, who does my living, is similar a stranger to me."^[3]

Experienced well-beingness [edit]

Kahneman kickoff began the study of well-being in the 1990s. At the time near happiness inquiry relied on polls nearly life satisfaction. Having previously studied unreliable memories, the author was doubtful that life satisfaction was a good indicator of happiness. He designed a question that emphasized instead the well-being of the experiencing self. The author proposed that "Helen was happy in the month of March" if she spent nearly of her fourth dimension engaged in activities that she would rather continue than stop, little time in situations that she wished to escape, and not too much time in a neutral land that wouldn't adopt continuing or stopping the activity either way.

Thinking about life [edit]

Kahneman suggests that emphasizing a life issue such as a marriage or a new car can provide a distorted illusion of its true value. This "focusing illusion" revisits earlier ideas of substituting difficult questions and WYSIATI.

Awards and honors [edit]

• 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Current Interest)^[17]
• National Academy of Sciences Best Volume Award in 2012^[five]
• The New York Times Book Review, ane of the best books of 2011^[18]
• Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011^[xix]
• One of The Economist'southward 2022 Books of the Year^[20]
• One of The Wall Street Periodical'due south Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011^[21]

Reception [edit]

As of 2022 the book had sold over one million copies.^[22] On the year of its publication, it was on the New York Times Bestseller List.^[4] The volume was reviewed in media including the Huffington Post,^[23] The Guardian,^[24] The New York Times,^[2] The Financial Times,^[25] The Independent,^[26] Bloomberg ^[ten] and The New York Review of Books.^[27]

The book was widely reviewed in specialist journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature,^[xiii] American Journal of Teaching,^[28] The American Journal of Psychology,^[29] Planning Theory,^[30] The American Economist,^[31] The Journal of Risk and Insurance,^[32] The Michigan Law Review,^[33] American Scientist,^[34] Gimmicky Sociology,^[35] Scientific discipline,^[36] Contexts,^[37] The Wilson Quarterly,^[38] Technical Advice,^[39] The Academy of Toronto Law Journal,^[xl] A Review of General Semantics ^[41] and Scientific American Heed.^[42]

The book was too reviewed in an annual magazine by The Association for Psychological Scientific discipline.^[43]

Legacy [edit]

The book has achieved a large post-obit amid baseball scouts and baseball executives. The ways of thinking described in the book are believed to help scouts, who have to make major judgements off fiddling data and can easily autumn into prescriptive yet inaccurate patterns of analysis.^[44]

Replication crisis [edit]

Part of the volume has been swept up in the replication crisis facing psychology and the social sciences. Information technology was discovered many prominent inquiry findings were difficult or impossible for others to replicate, and thus the original findings were called into question. An analysis^[45] of the studies cited in chapter four, "The Associative Auto", found that their R-Index^[46] is 14, indicating essentially no reliability. Kahneman himself responded to the report in blog comments and best-selling the affiliate's shortcomings: "I placed too much religion in underpowered studies."^[47] Others have noted the irony in the fact that Kahneman made a mistake in judgment similar to the ones he studied.^[48]

A later on analysis^[49] made a bolder merits that, despite Kahneman's previous contributions to the field of decision making, almost of the volume'due south ideas are based on 'scientific literature with shaky foundations'. A general lack of replication in the empirical studies cited in the book was given as a justification.

See likewise [edit]

• Behavioral economic science
• Cognitive reflection test
• Conclusion theory
• Dual process theory
• List of cognitive biases
• Outline of thought
• Peak–terminate dominion

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External links [edit]

• How To Think Fast & Dull, excerpt at Penguin Books Commonwealth of australia
• Daniel Kahneman changed the way nosotros retrieve almost thinking. Only what do other thinkers call up of him? – Various interviews about Kahneman and Thinking, Fast and Tiresome in an article in The Guardian.
• l Strategies To End Overthinking – Train Your Encephalon & Listen

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