The Psychology Podcast Best of Series: A Remarkable Life, Fast and Slow With Daniel Kahneman
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Nov 16, 2023 
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman discusses judgment, decision-making, reducing noise and bias, and thinking fast and slow. Personal experiences during World War II, collaboration research on intuition and expertise, system one and system two processing, measuring and defining emotions, wealth and happiness connection, role of bias and noise in decision making, growth and wisdom, and cognitive biases are explored.
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Shift to Judgment and Decision-Making
- Kahneman's shift to judgment and decision-making stemmed from a seminar debate with Amos Tversky.
- Kahneman challenged Tversky's view of humans as good intuitive statisticians, leading to their collaborative work on flawed intuitions.
Collaboration with Gary Klein
- Kahneman and Gary Klein, initially holding opposing views on expert intuition, collaborated for six years.
- This successful 'adversarial collaboration' resulted in a paper titled "Expert Intuition: A Failure to Disagree."
System 1 vs. System 2
- System 1 thinking involves automatic processes, while System 2 thinking involves controlled processes.
- Kahneman uses 'system' terminology for simplicity, acknowledging the more accurate term is 'type', as these systems encompass diverse mental activities.