Thinking, Fast and Slow

6: Norms, Surprises, and Causes
An observer: Daniel Kahneman and Dale T. Miller, “Norm Theory:
Comparing Reality to Its Alternatives,” 
Psychological Review 93 (1986):

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136–53.
“tattoo on my back”: Jos J. A. Van Berkum, “Understanding Sentences in
Context: What Brain Waves Can Tell Us,” 
Current Directions in
Psychological Science 17 (2008): 376–80.
the word pickpocket: Ran R. Hassin, John A. Bargh, and James S.
Uleman, “Spontaneous Causal Inferences,” 
Journal of Experimental
Social Psychology 38 (2002): 515–22.
indicate surprise: Albert Michotte, The Perception of Causality (Andover,
MA: Methuen, 1963). Alan M. Leslie and Stephanie Keeble, “Do Six-
Month-Old Infants Perceive Causality?” 
Cognition 25 (1987): 265–88.
explosive finale: Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel, “An Experimental
Study of Apparent Behavior,” 
American Journal of Psychology 13 (1944):
243–59.
identify bullies and victims: Leslie and Keeble, “Do Six-Month-Old Infants
Perceive Causality?”
as we die: Paul Bloom, “Is God an Accident?” Atlantic, December 2005.
7: A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions
elegant experiment: Daniel T. Gilbert, Douglas S. Krull, and Patrick S.
Malone, “Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some Problems in the Rejection of
False Information,” 
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 59
(1990): 601–13.
descriptions of two people: Solomon E. Asch, “Forming {#823.
Impressions of Personality,” 
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
41 (1946): 258–90.
all six adjectives: Ibid.
Wisdom of Crowds: James Surowiecki, 
The Wisdom of Crowds (New
York: Anchor Books, 2005).
one-sided evidence: Lyle A. Brenner, Derek J. Koehler, and Amos
Tversky, “On the Evaluation of One-Sided Evidence,” 
Journal of
Behavioral Decision Making 9 (1996): 59–70.