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Cognitive Science
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Steven Pinker: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Steven Pinker — whether to begin with The Better Angels of Our Nature, Enlightenment Now, or The Language Instinct. A complete reading guide.
Books Like Thinking, Fast and Slow: Cognitive Science, Bias, and How We Actually Make Decisions
Daniel Kahneman's account of System 1 (fast, intuitive, emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberative, rational) thinking — and the ways System 1 hijacks decisions we believe are rational — is the most influential popular psychology book of the last two decades. These books share its revelatory quality and its evidence-based challenge to our self-image as rational beings.
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