Heuristics and Biases
The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
The essay collection that gathered a generation of research on how intuitive judgement goes wrong.
The successor volume to Judgment Under Uncertainty, collecting the research on intuitive judgement produced in the two decades after it. Edited by Gilovich, Griffin and Kahneman, the essays cover the heuristics people use, the biases they produce, and the growing argument about how far these findings show human reasoning to be irrational.
Recommended by 1 Person
Matthew Syed
This is another really good set of essays in a rapidly growing branch of intellectual enquiry called behavioural economics where they look at the irrationalities in the way that humans behave. I thought this was brilliant. One essay in particular on irrational optimism caught my eye.
Interview · December 2010
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