Psychology professor Daniel Kahneman recently passed away. His most famous book, Thinking Fast and Slow, discusses how we have two methods of thinking — one based on immediate reactions and instinct, ...

One of the best books is Thinking, Fast and Slow by behavioural scientist Daniel Kahneman. It says we have two ways of thinking: fast thinking is about instinct and feelings, and slow thinking is ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

The brain is wired for shortcuts and speed, not always for accuracy. It’s not a flaw; it’s just nature’s way of helping us survive. However, the errors in our thinking, also known as cognitive biases, ...

We all know that someone with a high intelligence quotient or IQ is smart. The whole idea of an IQ test is to measure how innately intelligent someone is–to get a sense of their mental capability or ...

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