On Being with Krista Tippett: Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other
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Published on 05 Oct 2017. The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist on why we think and act the way we do — and why facts matter less than we think in forming our beliefs. With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for helping to create the field of behavioral economics — and is a self-described “constant worrier.” It’s fun, helpful, and more than a little unnerving to apply his insights into why we think and act the way we do in this moment of social and political tumult. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
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