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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments

Fast, intuitive System 1 and slow, effortful System 2, plus the biases that follow from relying on the first: Daniel Kahneman's summary of decades of research. Parts of the priming literature it cites have not replicated, which is worth knowing going in. The core work on heuristics, framing and loss aversion has held up.

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