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A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
W. W. Norton & Company
December 2016
On Sale: December 6, 2016
368 pages
ISBN: 0393254593
EAN: 9780393254594
Kindle: B01GI6S7EK
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How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our
perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and
Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original
studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making
process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human
mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in
uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics,
revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based
medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation,
and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman
and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the
powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to
algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration
between two men who have the dimensions of great literary
figures. They became heroes in the university and on the
battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli
military―and their research was deeply linked to their
extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a
brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center
of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the
Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing
self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history
of science, working together so closely that they couldn’t
remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should
claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead
authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply
alternated thereafter. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored
through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so
fundamentally different from each other that they seem
unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well
have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.
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