Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets

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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. Abstract: "The essays contained in this book are unedited transcriptions of scientific talks and conversations between conference participants. Any apparent errors in usage should be considered natural products of speech"--Publisher's note.  Read more... Content: 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 [and others] (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- The marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking / Daniel Kahneman.