Thinking, Fast and Slow (64 page)

hedonimeter

Heider, Fritz

helping experiment

Hertwig, Ralph

Hess, Eckhard

heuristic, definition of

high school curriculum team

hindsight: bias in; regret and

historical events

hitchhiker question

Hitler, Adolf

Hogarth, Robin

honesty box

“How Mental Systems Believe” (Gilbert)

How to Solve It
(Pólya)

Hsee, Christopher

hubris hypothesis

Humans and Econs

Hume, David

hunger

hypotheses, testing

ideomotor effect

illusions: cognitive,
see
cognitive illusions; Müller-Lyer; 3-D

imaginability, immediate gratification

incongruity

independent judgments

indifference map

inheritances

injection puzzle

In Search of Excellence
(Peters and Waterman)

inside view

insurance

intelligence; in marriage; pretentious language and

intensity matching

intention

interviews; in Israeli Defense Forces

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
(Bentham)

intuition: acquisiitiodution of; common use of word; of experts,
see
expert intuition; predictive,
see
predictions and forecasts; as recognition; Simon’s definition of

Inventor’s Assistance Program

investments: stock portfolios; sunk-cost fallacy and

Invisible Gorilla, The
(Chabris and Simons)

irrationality

Israel, bombings in

Israeli Defense Forces: flight instructors in; interviews in; leaderless group challenge in

Israeli Ministry of Education

“Jabberwocky” (Carroll)

Jacoby, Larry

Jencks, Christopher

joint evaluations; single evaluations vs.

judgment heuristics

Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
(Bazerman)

judgments; basic assessments in; of experts,
see
expert intuition; intensity matching in; mental shotgun in; predictive,
see
predictions and forecasts; sets and prototypes in; summary, of complex information;
see also
decisions, decision making

“Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases” (Tversky and Kahneman)

Julie problem

jumping to conclusions; bias for belief and confirmation in; halo effect in,
see
halo effect; suppression of ambiguity and doubt in; WYSIATI in,
see
what you see is all there is

Kaye, Danny

keeping score; mental accounts and; regret and; responsibility and

KEEP-LOSE study

kidney cancer

Killing Ground, The

kitchen renovations

Klein, Gary

Knetsch, Jack

know
, use of word

knowledge; reconstruction of past states of

kouros

Krueger, Alan

Kunreuther, Howard

Kuran, Timur

labor negotiations

Lady Macbeth effect

language, complex vs. simple

Larrick, Richard

Larson, Gary

law,
see
legal cases law of large numbers

law of small numbers; and bias of confidence over doubt

laziness of System 2

Layard, Richard

leaderless group challenge

leadership and business practices; at Google

LeBoeuf, Robyn

legal cases: civil, damages in; DNA evidence in; fourfold pattern and; frivolous; loss aversion in; malpractice; outcome bias in

leisure time

less-is-more pattern

Lewis, Michael

libertarian policies

Lichtenstein, Sarah

life: evaluation of; stories in; satisfaction in; thinking about

Linda problem

List, John

loans

logarithmic functions

loss aversion; in animals; enhanced; goals as reference points in; in legal decisions; status quo and

loss aversion ratio

losses

lotteries

Lovallo, Dan

Love Canal

luck

lying

Malkiel, Burton

Malmendier, Ulrike

malpractice litigation

Mao Zedong

march of historyuote>

Markowitz, Harry

marriage; life satisfaction and

Mathematical Psychology
(Dawes, Tversky, and Coombs)

matter, relation of mind to

McFarland, Cathy

media, availability heuristic and

medical school admissions

medical survey problem

medicine; expertise in; malpractice litigation; overconfidence in; physicians; unique cases in; unusual treatments in

Mednick, Sarnoff

Meehl, Paul

meetings

memory, memories; associative,
see
associative memory; availability heuristic and,
see
availability; duration neglect in; experienced utility and; illusions of; and the remembering self; of vacations

mental accounts

mental effort,
see
effort mental energy

mental shotgun

mere exposure effect

messages, persuasive

metaphors

Michigan/Detroit problem

Michigan State University

Michotte, Albert

Miller, Dale

mind, relation of matter to

Mischel, Walter

miswanting

MIT

money and wealth: cultural differences in attitudes toward; happiness and; income vs. leisure; mental accounts and; poverty; priming and; utility of

Moneyball
(Lewis)

mood,
see
emotions and mood Morgenstern, Oskar

Moses illusion

motivation

movies

“MPG Illusion, The” (Larrick and Soll)

mug experiments

Mullainathan, Sendhil

Müller-Lyer illusion

multiple regression

Mussweiler, Thomas

mutual funds

 

 

names: complicated; of famous people

narrative fallacy

narrow framing; disposition effect

Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM)

negativity dominance

negotiations

neuroeconomics

New York Times, The

New York University

9/11

Nisbett, Richard

Nixon, Richard

Nobel Prize

norms

norm theory

novelty

Nudge
(Thaler and Sunstein)

nutrition

 

 

Oakland A’s

Obama, Barack

obesity

Odean, Terry

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

one-sided evidence

Oppenheimer, Danny

optimal experience

optimism; in CEOs; resilience and

optimistic bias; competition neglect; in entrepreneurs; overconfidence; planning fallacy; premortem and; risk taking and

Oregon Research Institute

organ donation

organizations

outcome bias

outside view

 

 

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pain; chronic; cold-hand experiment and; colonoscopies and; duration neglect and; injection puzzle and; memory of; operation experiment and; peak-end rule and; in rats

paraplegics

parole

past: and confusing experiences with memories; hindsight bias and; regret and

pastness

pattern seeking

Pavlov, Ivan

peak-end rule

persuasive messages

physicians; malpractice litigation and

piano playing and weight, measuring

plane crashes

planning fallacy; mitigating

plausibility

pleasure; in rats

Plott, Charles

poignancy

political experts

political preference

Pólya, George

Pope, Devin

Porras, Jerry I.

positive test strategy

possibility effect: gambles and; threats and

post-traumatic stress

poverty

precautionary principle

predictability, insensitivity to

predictions and forecasts; baseline; clinical vs. statistical; disciplining; of experts,
see
expert intuition; extreme, value of; formulas for,
see
formulas; increasing accuracy in; low-validity environments and; nonregressive; objections to moderating; optimistic bias in; outside view in; overconfidence in; planning fallacy and; short-term trends and; valid, illusion of;
see also
probability

preference reversals; unjust

premonition
, use of word