The Marvels and the Flaws of Intuitive Thinking Edge Master Class 2011

"The power of settings, the power of priming, and the power of unconscious thinking, all of those are a major change in psychology. I can't think of a bigger change in my lifetime. You were asking what's exciting? That's exciting, to me."

From Conversation:

Daniel Kahneman

[9.12.11]

Topic:

MIND

We ended up studying something that we call "heuristics and biases". Those were shortcuts, and each shortcut was identified by the biases with which it came. The biases had two functions in that story. They were interesting in themselves, but they were also the primary evidence for the existence of the heuristics. If you want to characterize how something is done, then one of the most powerful ways of characterizing the way the mind does anything is by looking at the errors that the mind produces while it's doing it because the errors tell you what it is doing. Correct performance tells you much less about the procedure than the errors do. We focused on errors. We became completely identified with the idea that people are generally wrong. We became like prophets of... Go to conversation

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