“About eight years ago I was in Tehran at a small conference on neurophilosophy, where several outstanding researchers of human knowledge were invited, including Anne Traisman, a leading American specialist in the field of attention.” One day, when the conference participants were sitting in a cafe, who “Anne asked:” Tell me, what does your husband do? “” Spending the Nobel Prize, “Anne replied to the amazement of the questioner, referring to Daniel Kahneman, who at the time was writing this book.
Nobel Prize Kahneman – for psychology thing unprecedented. And she was awarded for her services in the field of economics, since Kahneman’s works go beyond the limits of psychological knowledge proper and answer the question of why and how we make mistakes, making choices and making decisions, including economic ones, including at the state level. And by and large the book “Think slowly, decide quickly” is a detailed and
accessible development of the ideas sounded in the Nobel lecture and grew out of the research that Kahneman began more than 40 years ago with Amos Tversky. In this prestigious award-winning book, the author not only sums up the results of the research, but also gives practical recommendations as to when we can fully trust ourselves, and when it is better to think about, stop and recheck our conclusions. ” Think slowly. Decide fast “is a vivid example of how cognitive research penetrates into a wide range of spheres of life, from the conclusion of business contracts to personal relationships.
The basis of this voluminous book (there are 38 chapters in it, and two previously written articles written by Kaneman in collaboration with Tver) are given in the appendix. The idea is that our knowledge is a product of interaction between two independent systems. System 1 – fast, intuitive, instantly issuing ready-made, often hasty solutions based on emotions and past experience. System 2 is extremely slow, scrupulous, rational, not making decisions without checking all available facts. Our main problem
is that while System 2 is “swinging”, we manage to make a decision on the basis of a more prompt, automatically triggered System 1, which is mistaken no less often than it takes the right decisions. And we do not always give ourselves the trouble to clarify its conclusions with the help of System 2, because it requires us to do our best. Why, if the store has a sign “No more than 10 packages in one hand,” do we buy more than we intended? Why are we rushing to the other end of the city for a blouse for 200 rubles cheaper, if at the nearest department store it costs 400 rubles, but we even do not have a mind to go somewhere, if it costs 4400 next to the house? Why are convinced that movie stars get divorced more often than ordinary people? The answers to these and many other questions are sought in the book. ” than ordinary people? The answers to these and many other questions are sought in the book. ” than ordinary people? The answers to these and many other questions are sought in the book. “
