Thinking, Fast and Slow
The two systems behind every judgment you make: one fast, intuitive and often wrong, one slow and effortful. Kahneman's life's work for a general reader.
The book that carried a lifetime of research to a general audience. Kahneman lays out two modes of thought: System 1, fast, automatic and emotional, and System 2, slow, effortful and deliberate. Most of the time System 1 runs the show, and most of the time it is good enough, but Kahneman catalogues the specific, repeatable ways it misleads us, from anchoring and availability to overconfidence and loss aversion. Dense but rewarding, it is the definitive popular account of how human judgment actually works, written by the man who mapped it.
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