Two seconds is not much time. Not enough time to evaluate a situation. Not enough time to negotiate. But it is enough time for implicit attitudes and emotions to drive responses. It is enough time to ...

Why do we decide to do the things we do? In "Thinking, Fast and Slow," author Daniel Kahneman tackles that very question. He examines what he deems our “cognitive blind spots.” Kahneman asks why we ...

As marketing director of Attensi, Anthony Wong helps people learn faster and better by making learning more fun and fruitful. During the holiday, I finally finished Thinking, Fast and Slow, authored ...

Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering theories on behavioral economics, has died. He was 90. The Israeli-American psychologist died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a ...

ChatGPT is never shy at pretending to perform deep thought, but — like our brain — might need additional tools to reason accurately “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.” is now written ...

Last week, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll reported that a majority of Americans oppose allowing transgender women and girls to compete against other women and girls in high school, ...

Nobel Prize winner Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman died on March 27, 2024, at an assisted suicide facility in Switzerland, revealed columnist Jason Zweig in an essay for The Wall Street ...

Daniel Kahneman, in his recent book, described the differences between thinking fast and thinking slow. When we engage in fast thinking, our responses are driven by emotions, heuristics, and biases.

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