Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts

27.6.11

Blink (book) - Wikipedia

Blink (book) - Wikipedia

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious; mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information. It considers both the strengths of the adaptive unconscious, for example in expert judgment, and its pitfalls such as stereotypes.

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25.5.11

Steven Pinker - language and thought | TED.com

"In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize."