Got this for 50p in a charity shop

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

nice meme

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.

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.

>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?

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.

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

it's the best pop-psych there is

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

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.

Science pill

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.

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).

>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.

>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"

>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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Just read Jung you cunt

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