Project Sherlock

Psychology

Judgement & Decision Making

How people actually decide, as opposed to how models assume they do.

11 topics · 2 curated works

Topics

Curated reading

2

Start here

No prior grounding assumed.

  • Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman, 2011

    Two systems of thought and a catalogue of the biases produced by the fast one — with several chapters since undermined by replication failures.

    Book

Then

Assumes you know the vocabulary.

  • Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and BiasesAmos Tversky & Daniel Kahneman, 1974· 8 pages

    Three heuristics — representativeness, availability, anchoring — explain a wide family of systematic reasoning errors.

    Paper

Also covered elsewhere

This subject genuinely sits in more than one domain. These fields approach the same ground with different methods.

Elsewhere in Psychology