Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Part 1, Chapter 1 Part 1, Chapter 2 Part 1, Chapter 3 Part 1, Chapter 4 Part 1, Chapter 5 Part 1, Chapter 6 Part 1, Chapter 7 Part 1, Chapter 8 Part 1, Chapter 9 Part 2, Chapter 10 Part 2, Chapter 11 Part 2, Chapter 12 Part 2, Chapter 13 Part 2, Chapter 14 Part 2, Chapter 15 Part 2, Chapter 16 Part 2, Chapter 17 Part 2, Chapter 18 Part 3, Chapter 19 Part 3, Chapter 20 Part 3, Chapter 21 Part 3, Chapter 22 Part 3, Chapter 23 Part 3, Chapter 24 Part 4, Chapter 25 Part 4, Chapter 26 Part 4, Chapter 27 Part 4, Chapter 28 Part 4, Chapter 29 Part 4, Chapter 30 Part 4, Chapter 31 Part 4, Chapter 32 Part 4, Chapter 33 Part 4, Chapter 34 Part 5, Chapter 35 Part 5, Chapter 36 Part 5, Chapter 37 Part 5, Chapter 38 Conclusions
Themes
All Themes Intuition, Deliberation, and Laziness Human Fallibility and Overconfidence Stories and Subjectivity vs. Statistics and Objectivity Choices, Losses, and Gains
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All Characters Daniel Kahneman Amos Tversky Richard Thaler Daniel Bernoulli Gary Klein Cass Sunstein Paul Slovic
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All Terms Heuristic What You See Is All There Is (WYSIATI) Humans Econs
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All Symbols Müller-Lyer Illusion
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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow Symbols

Müller-Lyer Illusion

The Müller-Lyer illusion symbolizes people’s inability to change how they process information, even when they know they are wrong. The Müller-Lyer illusion is an image: on the top is a horizontal line with arrows or…

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