Thinking : the new science of decision-making, problem-solving, and prediction / edited by John Brockman. - First edition. - vi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

The normal well-tempered mind / How to win at forecasting / Smart heuristics / Affective forecasting ... or ... the big wombassa: what you think you're going to get, and what you don't get, when you get what you want / Adventures in behavioral neurology- or- What neurology can tell us about human nature / The social psychological narrative- or- What is social psychology, anyway? / The adolescent brain / Essentialism / Testosterone on my mind and in my brain / Insight / A sense of cleanliness / The fourth quadrant: a map of the limits of statistics / Life is the way the animal is in the world / Recursion and human thought: why the pirahã don't have numbers / The new science of morality / The marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking / Daniel C. Dennett -- Philip Tetock (with an introduction by Daniel Kahneman) -- Gerd Gigerenzer (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Daniel Gilbert (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Vilayanur Ramachandran -- Timothy D. Wilson (with an introduction by Daniel Gilbert) -- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (with an introduction by Simon Baron-Cohen) -- Bruce Hood -- Simon Baron-Cohen (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Gary Klein (with an introduction by Daniel Kahneman) -- Simone Schnall -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Alva Noë -- Daniel L. Everett -- Jonathan Haidt [and others] (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Daniel Kahneman.

A master class on how to develop productive thinking and decision-making skills draws on the expertise of leading psychologists and thinkers, including Daniel Dennett, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Simon Baron-Cohen.

9780062258540 (pbk.) 0062258540 (pbk.)

2016304607


Decision making.
Toma de decisiones
Problem solving.
Resolución de problemas
Forecasting.
Previsión
Intuición

BF 441 / T443 2013

153.8/3