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Thinking, fast and slow was a global bestseller, and had a profound impact on psychology and economics, as these tributes from other leading figures show. Thinking, fast and slow represents an elegant summation of a lifetime of research in which kahneman, princeton university professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs, and his late collaborator, amos tversky, changed the way psychologists think about thinking. It is the bestselling book and was published in 2011. The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us.
Dec, 2011 thinking, fast and slow was a global bestseller, and had a profound impact on psychology and economics, as these tributes from other leading figures show published. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields, but he has never brought them together in one book. The author and narrator of thinking, fast and slow. The availability of a diagnostic label for this biasthe halo effectmakes it easier to anticipate, recognize, and understand.
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