Biases

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman's synthesis uses the characters System 1 and System 2 to connect decades of research on attention, heuristics, statistical judgment, overconfidence, prospect theory, framing, and remembered wellbeing. It is a powerful vocabulary for decision inquiry, but not a settled catalog: some social-priming studies it popularized later failed replication tests, and cognitive bias alone cannot explain institutional power or harmful incentives.