A review by daaan
The Decisive Moment by Jonah Lehrer

4.0

This is a very good book about the current psychological theories of decision making. It presents a more balanced view of the science than some books I've encountered. There's a lot of partisanship in this fields, on the one side people have a view of humanity as hopelessly biased and logically faulty, on the other, highly optimistic about the rationality of humans. This presents a middle ground, and I love the middle ground. Being serious though, the strength of this book is really the conclusion. It gives you a good summary of the conditions in which you should rely on fast/emotional thinking, and conversely the conditions under which you should rely on slow/rational thinking, though I can't remember it specifying the conditions under which you should rely on neither and instead use an algorithm, but that's by the by. Very good read. Only downside is the author's professional ethics and decision making are highly impaired. Oh well, can't have it all.