Thinking
Subtitle: the new science of decision-making, problem-solving, and prediction
By: edited by John Brockman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Haper Perennial
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780062258540
Subjects: Forecasting; Decision making; Problem solving
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The normal well-tempered mind / Daniel C. Dennett; title: How to win at forecasting / Philip Tetock (with an introduction by Daniel Kahneman); title: Smart heuristics / Gerd Gigerenzer (with an introduction by John Brockman); title: 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); title: Adventures in behavioral neurology- or- What neurology can tell us about human nature / Vilayanur Ramachandran; title: The social psychological narrative- or- What is social psychology, anyway? / Timothy D. Wilson (with an introduction by Daniel Gilbert); title: The adolescent brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (with an introduction by Simon Baron-Cohen); title: Essentialism / Bruce Hood; title: Testosterone on my mind and in my brain / Simon Baron-Cohen (with an introduction by John Brockman); title: Insight / Gary Klein (with an introduction by Daniel Kahneman); title: A sense of cleanliness / Simone Schnall; title: The fourth quadrant: a map of the limits of statistics / Nassim Nicholas Taleb (with an introduction by John Brockman); title: Life is the way the animal is in the world / Alva Noë; title: Recursion and human thought: why the pirahã don't have numbers / Daniel L. Everett; title: The new science of morality / Jonathan Haidt ... [et al.] (with an introduction by John Brockman); title: The marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking / Daniel Kahneman.