Thinking, Fast and Slow
Nobel laureate Kahneman's magnum opus: the two-system model of human cognition. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional. System 2 is slow, deliberate, and logical. Kahneman maps the systematic errors in judgment — anchoring, loss aversion, overconfidence — with devastating precision. The most cited psychology book of the 21st century, and the intellectual foundation of behavioral finance.
Chapter four, the priming chapter, collapsed in the replication crisis, and Kahneman admitted he had placed too much faith in underpowered studies; read that section as history, not science. The rest runs long and repeats itself: by the two selves, the same anchoring and loss-aversion experiments have lectured you three times over five hundred pages.
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