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Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
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Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-
Tversky, Amos.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Neurosciences.
Economics -- Psychological aspects.
Decision making.
Statistical decision.
Psychologists -- Israel -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
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Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-
Tversky, Amos.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Neurosciences.
Economics -- Psychological aspects.
Decision making.
Statistical decision.
Psychologists -- Israel -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds / Michael Lewis.
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Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Call #:
612
.8233
L675u
Subjects
Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-
Tversky, Amos.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Neurosciences.
Economics -- Psychological aspects.
Decision making.
Statistical decision.
Psychologists -- Israel -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780393254594 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
362 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-360).
Contents:
Introduction: The problem that never goes away -- Man boobs -- The outsider -- The insider -- Errors -- The collision -- The mind's rules -- The rules of prediction -- Going viral -- Birth of the warrior psychologist -- The isolation effect -- The rules of undoing -- This cloud of possibility -- Coda: Bora-Bora.
Summary:
"Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. A compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield - both had important careers in the Israeli military - and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn't remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter. Six years after Tversky's death, Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for the work he did in collaboration with Amos Tversky. The prize is not awarded posthumously. Kahneman told The New York Times "I feel it is a joint prize. We were twinned for more than a decade." This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind."--Provided by publisher.
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