Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other

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On Being : Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other Image

Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other

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With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for helping to create the field of behavioral economics. He is a self-described “constant worrier.” And it’s fun, helpful, and more than a little unnerving to apply his insights into why we think and act the way we do in this moment of social and political tumult.