Two seconds is not much time. Not enough time to evaluate a situation. Not enough time to negotiate. But it is enough time for implicit attitudes and emotions to drive responses. It is enough time to ...

Why do we decide to do the things we do? In "Thinking, Fast and Slow," author Daniel Kahneman tackles that very question. He examines what he deems our “cognitive blind spots.” Kahneman asks why we ...

Melinda Fouts, Ph.D., of Success Starts With You, author of Cognitive Enlightenment and awarded Top International Coach 2020 by the IAOTP. Let’s say you are having a conversation and before you know ...

The brain is wired for shortcuts and speed, not always for accuracy. It’s not a flaw; it’s just nature’s way of helping us survive. However, the errors in our thinking, also known as cognitive biases, ...

Nobel Prize winner Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman died on March 27, 2024, at an assisted suicide facility in Switzerland, revealed columnist Jason Zweig in an essay for The Wall Street ...

Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering theories on behavioral economics, has died. He was 90. The Israeli-American psychologist died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a ...

Last week, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll reported that a majority of Americans oppose allowing transgender women and girls to compete against other women and girls in high school, ...

Daniel Kahneman, in his recent book, described the differences between thinking fast and thinking slow. When we engage in fast thinking, our responses are driven by emotions, heuristics, and biases.

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