Thinking, Fast and Slow

Atlantic, The
attention; in self-control
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Attention and Effort (Kahneman)
Auerbach, Red
authoritarian ideas
availability; affect and; and awareness of one’s biases;
expectations about; media and; psychology of; risk assessment
and, 
see risk assessment
availability cascades
availability entrepreneurs
bad and good, distinctions between
banks
bank teller problem
Barber, Brad
Bargh, John
baseball
baseball cards
baseline predictions
base rates; in cab driver problem; causal; in helping experiment;
low; statistical; in Tom W problem; in Yale exam problem
basic assessments
basketball
basketball tickets
bat-and-ball problem
Baumeister, Roy

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Bayes, Thomas
Bayesian statistics
Bazerman, Max
Beane, Billy
Beatty, Jackson
Becker, Gary
“Becoming Famous Overnight” (Jacoby)
behavioral economics
Behavioral Insight Team
“Belief in the Law of Small Numbers” (Tversky and Kahneman)
beliefs: bias for; past, reconstruction of
Benartzi, Shlomo
Bentham, Jeremy
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernouilli, Nicholas
Beyth, Ruth
bicycle messengers
Black Swan, The (Taleb)
blame
Blink (Gladwell)
Borg, Björn
Borgida, Eugene
“Boys Will Be Boys” (Barber and Odean)
Bradlee, Ben
brain; amygdala in; anterior cingulate in; buying and
selling and; emotional framing and; frontal area of;
pleasure and; prefrontal area of; punishment and; sugar
in; threats and; and variations of probabilities
British Toxicology Society
broad framing
Brockman, John
broken-leg rule
budget forecasts
Built to Last (Collins and Porras)
Bush, George W.
business and leadership practices; at Google
business pundits
Cabanac, Michel

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cab driver problem
cabdrivers, New York City
Californians
Camerer, Colin
cancer; surgery vs. radiation for
Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale
Carroll, Lewis
cars and driving; brakes in; driving tests; fuel economy
and; pleasure from
cash box
categories
causal base rates
causal interpretations; correlation and; regression
effects and
causal situations
causal stereotypes
causes, and statistics
CEOs; optimistic
certainty effect
CFOs
Chabris, Christopher
chance and randomness; misconceptions of
changing one’s mind
Checklist Manifesto, A (Gawande)
chess
children: caring for; depressed; time spent with
China
Choice and Consequence (Schelling)
choice architecture
choices: from description; from experience; 
see
also decisions, decision making; risk assessment
“Choices, Values, and Frames” (Kahneman and
Tversky)
CIA
Clark, Andrew
climate
Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical
Analysis and a Review of the Evidence (Meehl)
Clinton, Bill
Coelho, Marta
coffee mug experiments

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cognitive busyness
cognitive ease; in basic assessments; and illusions
of remembering; and illusions of truth; mood and;
and writing persuasive messages; WYSIATI (what
you see is all there is) and
cognitive illusions; confusing experiences with
memories; of pundits; of remembering; of skill; of
stock-picking skill; of truth; of understanding; of
validity
Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT)
cognitive strain
Cohen, David
coherence;