The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development – Robert Kegan Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are – Daniel Nettle The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life – Erving Goffman The Fourth Way – Pyotr Ouspenskii The Drive For Self: Alfred Adler And The Founding Of Individual Psychology – Edward Hoffman Aion … Read more
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion – Anthony Pratkanis Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes – Jacques Ellul Propaganda – Edward Bernayes Propaganda and the Public Mind – Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
The Sane Society – Erich Fromm Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl Modern Man in Search of a Soul – Carl Jung The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man – Ernest Becker Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief – Jordan … Read more
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis – Daniel J Carlat Madness and Civilization – Michel Foucault The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct – Thomas Szasz Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill – Robert Whitaker
For years, professors at Duke University conducted a survey in which the chief financial officers of large corporations estimated the returns of the Standard & Poor’s index over the following year. The Duke scholars collected and examined 11,600 such forecasts. The conclusion was straightforward: financial officers of large corporations had no clue about the short-term … Read more
Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is about the ways in which our automatic patterns of thought can mislead us. But the book is not merely a collection of fallacies of the mind, but a study of the different conditions that can affect how we think, and even, how we remember. Throughout the book, … Read more
P.113) Even professional statisticians, in addition to Kahneman and other psychologists use their judgement to select sample size rather than compute and this results in results that cannot be conclusive. Kahneman called this phenomenon the “law of small numbers.” Note: If a complex problem cannot be solved by System 2 – System 1 finds a … Read more
P. 97) System 1 substitutes complex questions for simpler ones: You rarely feel stumped. Even if you don’t really understand something, you make conclusions based on a small amount of evidence that you don’t understand. You like some people and dislike others. You feel a stock will succeed. You distrust a stranger. All of this … Read more
P.89) System 2 deals with purposeful questions, whether from abroad or from within. There is no limit to what these questions can be, but they must be specific. System 1 constantly monitors what is happening internally and externally. These basic assessments play an important role in intuitive judgement because they substitute for more difficult – … Read more
P. 84 Halo effect. You have an impression about someone, colours everything else you think about them. Kahneman allowed cognitive ease to determine how he graded assignments, when he found a student who did well on one question, he became less critical of their answers in subsequent questions. Also known s a general principle:decorrelate error. … Read more