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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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The narratives are too verbose and tedious, it follows similar pattern to the point that the readers might feel as if the latter points resemble the former ones. But it is relatively comprehensive in pointing out the well known theories and save the time to read other similar psychological books such as "Blink" that are just an excerpt of this. The points I agree to a fair amount is summarized below:
-human minds are prone to priming, anchoring, framing and halo effect
-humans are risk averse, feel more pain for losses than the pleasure of gains. Therefore put more weight on rare event for peace of mind
-people judge the world by representatives and personal likes/dislikes and ignore statistical means and base rate
-try to make sense of the world and detect patterns that conform to their pre-existent theories. The world is what they focus on.

But I would say the points are not that revolutionary and not many points provoke me to apply it. Judging the effort required to peruse it, reading the summary of it might be sufficient. And be mindful that psychologists themselves are humans, and who can ascertain that they themselves are not trying too hard to make sense out of the designed experiments to support their theory?
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March 6, 2016 – Shelved
March 6, 2016 – Shelved as: to-read
March 7, 2016 – Started Reading
March 7, 2016 – Finished Reading

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