Looking My Way: Thinking Fast and Slow... and Mediator Sense

摘要

The Master Mediator addresses psychological factors that affect decision making in a series of columns. This month's column kicks off an exploration of the work of Professor Daniel Kahneman. Professors Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tvesky collaborated over decades to research how people make decisions. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2006 for his work on cognitive biases, particularly "Prospect Theory," which challenged conventional economic theory. His 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), is a detailed exploration of his life's work under a central thesis that humans make decisions as a result of the interplay between two diverse methods of thinking. He theorizes that there is a "System 1," which is fast, instinctive and emotion-laden, in contrast to a "System 2," which is slower, analytical and reflective.