Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction Audiobook (Free)

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Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Advantage.org, Thinking presents primary ideas simply by today’s leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

-Daniel Kahneman about the energy (and pitfalls) of individual intuition and ‘unconscious’ pondering.

-Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and why getting what we want doesn’t always make us happy.

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making.

-Vilayanur Ramachandran over the technological underpinnings of human being nature.

-Simon Baron-Cohen in the startling ramifications of testosterone in the brain.

-Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the architecture of the ‘normal’ human mind.

-Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence.

-Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis of evolutionary and biological thinking.

-Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality and what informs our choices.