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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds  Cover Image E-book E-book

The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds / Michael Lewis.

Summary:

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.--The Undoing ProjectThis 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393254600
  • ISBN: 0393254607
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Electronic book.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The problem that never goes away -- Man boobs -- The outsider -- The insider -- Errors -- The collision -- The mind's rules -- The rules of prediction -- Going viral -- Birth of the warrior psychologist -- The isolation effect -- The rules of undoing -- This cloud of possibility -- Coda: Bora-Bora.
Subject: Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-
Tversky, Amos.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Neurosciences.
Decision making.
Statistical decision.
Psychologists > Biography.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Decision making.
Neurosciences.
Statistical decision.
Genre: Electronic books.
Autobiographies.


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