Article archive / December 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 4. Source pages: 12.
Bill McCown, PhD Provost, U. of Louisiana Monroe Author (Strange Attractors: Chaos, Complexity, and the Art of Family Therapy, Treating Gambling Problems, Procrastination and Task Avoidance, and others.) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
“Ah, what am I reading? Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman was the last PSYCHOLOGIST to win a Nobel Prize (2002). His research has highlighted the almost unavoidable tendency of we humans to think and choose irrationality.
“The book summarizes his illustrious career, first with the late psychologist Amos Tversky, regarding human biases and judgment failures under uncertain conditions. There is strong evidence that people really are lousy thinkers in many situations. When things get uncertain, we get much worse. This has immediate and profound clinical implications.
“Since Tversky's death, Kahneman has done fascinating laboratory research concerning what makes us happy. It almost always isn't what we think.”
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