Got this for 50p in a charity shop. Any thoughts, /lit/? Is

Kill yourself.

>>10006387

Why? :(

>>10006393
If you can't tell by the cover thats trash I don't know what to say to you

>>10006379
It's pretty overrated.

>>10006401

I started reading it today and it seems pretty good.

Maybe you should, uh, not judge a book by its cover?

>>10006404

Elaborate?

>>10006401
Fucking pseud, shut the FUCK up. Stop judging a book by its cover.

>>10006408
The general high opinion of it is inconsistent with its actual merit.

>>10006408
people who haven't studied psychology think its a lot better than people who have studied psychology. its like a long winded literature review

>>10006428
It's a book about economics, not about psychology.

>>10006437
nice meme

>>10006437
Behavioural economics, actually. And where did that originate? From psychological research.

Also, it is the recommended reading on a lot of 1st year Psychology courses.

It's pop psych, but not bad. 50c is a steal for it.

>>10006379
Depending on your background, it may be a Corporatist's book of "insightful" aphorisms, or it may help you begin to understand some new psych concepts. The papers are interesting, and the info dump is neat. But the writing is boring, the conceptualisations so simplistic that you can tell he wanted to reach those young trained specialists who nary an encounter with the complex verse, or who, so full of themselves, need one line summaries to regurgitate in staff meetings to appear currently aware of what everyone should be currently aware of - meaning intellectual status signalling.

>>10006448
>From psychological research.
Yes, and?
>1st year Psychology courses
How does this suggest that it studies or is supposed to study psychological issues in depth?

>>10006469
It's pretty simplistic and it might seem to be stating the obvious for you but you would be surprised how often the obvious needs to be stated.
The studies described in the book have had some influence on economical thought.

>>10006401
isnt there a saying about judging books by their cover?
something about how youre a fucking retard who should kill himself?

>>10006379
it's the best pop-psych there is

>>10006379
The system 1 and 2 thing is kind of useful for evaluating the way the mind works so that's p cool

>>10006379
This actually has some pretty profound insights into human nature, and why the human brain is good at some short term things, and bad at other big picture things. But Kahneman is just a so-so writer.

>>10006379
Science pill

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>>10006379
Pretty good.

It showcases some very interesting quirks of the human brain. Very handy book if you're some upper management American Psycho yuppie that would like to manipulate people with tricks of the mind, but otherwise it's still useful if nothing else than for its System 1 and System 2 descriptions, which are nice concepts to be aware of whenever you're trying to make important decisions or judgements.

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>>10006401
Lol

I would definitely highly recommend this book. Kahneman's research has quietly been some of the most influential work of the 20th century. Thinking, Fast and Slow is basically just a summary of his work for the general reader. If you want a more in-depth look I believe there is a bound volume of his most influential papers, somewhere. They're fairly easy reads, too; you won't need much background knowledge (though some basic microeconomics would help).

>>10006469
>you can tell he wanted to reach those young trained specialists who nary an encounter with the complex verse, or who, so full of themselves, need one line summaries to regurgitate in staff meetings to appear currently aware of what everyone should be currently aware of - meaning intellectual status signalling.
Um no, you can tell this because it is literally his expressed purpose in the introduction.

>>10007826
>system 1 and system 2

wait, is that shit from that book? i was listening to a college lecture on "economics of uncertainty" and he was talking about that

oh system 1 and system 2 sounds exactly like what oren klaff talks about in his book when he says "crocodile brain" and "mammal brain" i guess he was using kahneman's concept but wanted to use clearer terms that "system 1" and "system 2"

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>>10006379
>new york bestseller

So what does the book actually teach you? From what I've read it's criticising intuition but I intuitively knew that already.

>>10006379
>50 cents
looks like you got your ass ripped off.

>>10006379
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>>10007833
This book and others like it are for the retarded masses to get an extremely simplified inkling into a given field.

Use it as a starting point.

>>10008500
Honestly, I've read most of the papers that cover what Thinking, Fast and Slow is about, and it's not even that far dumbed down. It's just more verbose, with more anecdotes and shit to entertain the reader. Behavioural economics is a relatively simple, accessible field.

>>10008528
This is pretty much the state of psychological and sociological "sciences". Well, one has to start somewhere, I guess.

>>10006379

much better intro cognition book than gladwell shit.
more academic than you'd expect.
good read, gateway

>>10006379
Just read Jung you cunt

>>10006379
From what Ive read (about half) its +- an intro class psychology where the proff tells about all the cool little experiments. Nothing more.