Thinking, Fast and Slow

see also utility Vancouver Island
Venn diagrams
venture capitalists
victim compensation
vividness; of outcomes; of probabilities
vocabulary: of girls vs. boys; simple vs. pretentious
Vohs, Kathleen
vomit, effect of word
Von Neumann, John
voting
Wainer, Howard
walking
wars
Washington Post, The
wealth, 
see money and wealth
weather

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Weber, Ernste>
weight and piano playing, measuring
Weiner, Howard
well-being; climate and; defining; disposition for; duration
weighting and; 
see also happiness
West, Richard
what you see is all there is (WYSIATI); confidence and; curriculum
team and; Julie problem and; optimistic bias and; premortem
and; professorial candidate problem and; soldiers’ performance
and; Tom W problem and
wheel of fortune
“wicked” environments
Wilson, Timothy
Wimbledon tournament
wine
Winter Olympics
Wisdom of Crowds, The (Surowiecki)
witnesses’ evidence
Woods, Tiger
words: complex vs. simple; emotionally-loaded
World Cup
World War II
worry
WYSIATI, 
see what you see is all there is
X-rays
Xu, Jing
Yale exam problem
Yom Kippur War
Zajonc, Robert
Zamir, Eyal
Zeller, Kathryn
Zweig, Jason
Zwerling, Harris

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Copyright © 2011 by Daniel Kahneman
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following
previously published material: “Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics
and Biases” from Science, New Series, Vol. 185, No. 4157, copyright ©
1974 by Amos Tversky and Dan"0%" te>X-rays Science. “Choices,
Values, and Frames” from The American Psychologist, copyright © 1983
by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Reprinted by permission of the
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Feature introduced in detail in part 4.

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Feature introduced in detail in part 4.

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Feature introduced in detail in part 4.

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This article originally appeared in 
Science, vol. 185, 1974. The research
was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the
Department of Defense and was monitored by the Office of Naval
Research under contract N00014-73-C-0438 to the Oregon Research
Institute, Eugene. Additional support for this research wass r"0%" wid
provided by the Research and Development Authority of the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, Israel.

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This article was originally presented as a Distinguished Scientific
Contributions Award address at the American Psychological Association
meeting, August 1983. This work was supported by grant NR 197-058
from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Originally published in 
American
Psychologist, vol. 34, 1984.