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Thinking : the new science of decision-making, problem-solving, and prediction

Author: John Brockman
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, [2013]
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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A master class on how to develop productive thinking and decision-making skills draws on the expertise of leading psychologists and thinkers, including Daniel Dennett, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Simon Baron-Cohen.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062258540 0062258540
OCLC Number: 861339999
Notes: Includes index.
Description: vi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents: The normal well-tempered mind / Daniel C. Dennett --
How to win at forecasting / Philip Tetock (with an introduction by Daniel Kahneman) --
Smart heuristics / Gerd Gigerenzer (with an introduction by John Brockman) --
Affective forecasting ... or ... the big wombassa: what you think you're going to get, and what you don't get, when you get what you want / Daniel Gilbert (with an introduction by John Brockman) --
Adventures in behavioral neurology- or- What neurology can tell us about human nature / Vilayanur Ramachandran --
The social psychological narrative- or- What is social psychology, anyway? / Timothy D. Wilson (with an introduction by Daniel Gilbert) --
The adolescent brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (with an introduction by Simon Baron-Cohen) --
Essentialism / Bruce Hood --
Testosterone on my mind and in my brain / Simon Baron-Cohen (with an introduction by John Brockman) --
Insight / Gary Klein (with an introduction by Daniel Kahneman) --
A sense of cleanliness / Simone Schnall --
The fourth quadrant: a map of the limits of statistics / Nassim Nicholas Taleb (with an introduction by John Brockman) --
Life is the way the animal is in the world / Alva Noë --
Recursion and human thought: why the pirahã don't have numbers / Daniel L. Everett --
The new science of morality / Jonathan Haidt [and others] (with an introduction by John Brockman) --
The marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking / Daniel Kahneman.
Responsibility: edited by John Brockman.

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