Overview of Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving and Prediction (Best of Edge Series) Book

In Thinking, today's most influential scientists and psychologists explain everything you need to know about the unique processes of human thought, rationality, happiness and decision-making. Contributors and topics include: Leaning to Expect the Unexpected by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan), grappling with the problem of randomness and the limits of the human mind to effectively model and comprehend it. Thinking About Thinking by Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Prize winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow), a master class in looking inward at human thought, with topics spanning happiness, decision-making, problem-solving and predictive utility. Affective Forecasting. . . Or. . . The Big Wombassa: What You Think You re Going to Get and What You Don t Get, When You Get What You Want by Daniel Gilbert (author of Stumbling on Happiness), on the uniquely human ability to forecast what we want-and why people are rarely as happy or unhappy as they might expect to be. Smart Heuristics by Gerd Gigerenzer, on human rationality and the heuristics involved in the wide-ranging fields of human choice. Probing The Limits Of Statistics by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on data analysis and the notion that the more data one has, the more likely one is to be fooled by randomness. A Short Course In Behavioral Economics by The Reality Club (Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan and Daniel Kahneman), a master class on the study of various impacting forces that affect economic individuals and institutions.

• Book Type :

Making, Problem

Book Binding :

Paperback

Language :

English

Number of Pages :

432 pages

ISBN - 10 :

0062258540

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving and Prediction (Best of Edge Series) Published On :

31 Oct 2016

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