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Books like Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

The best books like Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, and Predictably Irrational. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky is about judgment, cognitive bias, heuristics. 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.

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    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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  2. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
    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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  3. Predictably Irrational
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    Predictably Irrational

    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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  1. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
    Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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    Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

    Annie Duke · Psychology

    Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.

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  2. Fooled by Randomness
    Fooled by Randomness

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    Fooled by Randomness

    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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  3. Irrationality
    Irrationality

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    Irrationality

    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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  4. The Undoing Project
    The Undoing Project

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    The Undoing Project

    Michael Lewis · Psychology

    Michael Lewis came to this subject sideways.

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  5. Mind Over Money
    Mind Over Money

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    Mind Over Money

    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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  6. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
    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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  7. The Art of Thinking Clearly
    The Art of Thinking Clearly

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    The Art of Thinking Clearly

    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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  8. The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
    The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes

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    The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes

    David Robson · Psychology

    The Intelligence Trap is science journalist David Robson's investigation into a paradox: high intelligence and education do not protect against bad reasoning, and can actively make it worse.

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  9. The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
    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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Books like Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases: quick answers

What are the best books like Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases?

The best books like Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, such as judgment, cognitive bias, heuristics.

What should I read after Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases?

A natural next read after Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Shares judgment and cognitive bias with Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Other strong choices are Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke.

What books are similar to Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky?

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases centers on judgment, cognitive bias, heuristics. 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, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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