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Books like The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
The best books like The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, and The Art of Thinking Clearly. The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson is about cognitive bias, decision-making, critical thinking. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
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Read the summary → - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein · Psychology
Bias gets most of the attention in discussions of judgment error.
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Read the summary → - The Art of Thinking Clearly
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Rolf Dobelli · Psychology
Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss entrepreneur and novelist who wrote a series of short newspaper columns on cognitive biases, later collected and expanded into this book.
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- You Are Not So Smart
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David McRaney · Psychology
David McRaney is a journalist who started a blog called "You Are Not So Smart" about self-delusion in 2009, and turned it into this book in 2011.
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Read the summary → - Predictably Irrational
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Dan Ariely · Psychology
Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.
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Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology
Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.
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Read the summary → - Irrationality
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Stuart Sutherland · Psychology
Irrationality is Stuart Sutherland's rigorous and often mordant survey of the ways human beings consistently fail to reason well.
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Read the summary → - Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky · Psychology
Judgment Under Uncertainty is the academic anthology that launched a research program.
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Read the summary → - Mind Over Money
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Claudia Hammond · Psychology
Mind Over Money is Claudia Hammond's survey of the research on how people actually think about, feel about, and make decisions with money — which turns out to be considerably less rational than economic theory assumes.
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Read the summary → - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler · Psychology
Richard Thaler is one of the founders of behavioral economics, the field that took the anomalies in standard economic theory seriously rather than dismissing them as noise.
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Read the summary → - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
Tali Sharot · Psychology
Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist at University College London, and The Optimism Bias is her account of a finding that surprised researchers: most humans systematically overestimate the likelihood of good things happening to them and underestimate the likelihood of bad ones.
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Read the summary → - The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
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The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister · Psychology
Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist who co-authored the most-cited paper in the field — "Bad Is Stronger Than Good" — and this book is his attempt, with science writer John Tierney, to explain that finding to a general audience and draw out its practical implications.
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Books like The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes: quick answers
What are the best books like The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes?
The best books like The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes, such as cognitive bias, decision-making, critical thinking.
What should I read after The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes?
A natural next read after The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes. Other strong choices are Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney.
What books are similar to The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson?
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes centers on cognitive bias, decision-making, critical thinking. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
