Thinking : the new science of decision-making, problem-solving, and prediction / edited by John Brockman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockman, John, 1941- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Problem solving.

Forecasting.

Physical Description:

424 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haper Perennial, [2013].

Summary:

From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of Rational Thought, Decision-Making, Intuition, Morality, Willpower, Problem Solving, Prediction, Forecasting, Unconscious Behavior, and beyond. Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guardian), Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought. Book jacket.

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 ... [et al.] (with an introduction by John Brockman)

The marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking / Daniel Kahneman.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780062258540

0062258540

OCLC:

861339999