How We Decide
Book by Jonah Lehrer
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How We Decide is a 2009 book by journalist Jonah Lehrer,[1] that provides biological explanations of how people make decisions and offers suggestions for making better decisions. It is published as The Decisive Moment: How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind in the United Kingdom.
Hardcover edition | |
| Author | Jonah Lehrer |
|---|---|
| Subject | Decision making, psychology |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | February 9, 2009 |
| Pages | 302 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-618-62011-1 |
On March 1, 2013, following revelations that Lehrer had been caught in numerous falsifications in his books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the book was taken "off sale" after an internal review.[2]
Summary
Sections/chapters of the book are titled as follows:
- Introduction
- The Quarterback in the Pocket
- The Predictions of Dopamine
- Fooled by a Feeling
- The Uses of Reason
- Choking on Thought
- The Moral Mind
- The Brain Is an Argument
- The Poker Hand
- Coda
