Jonah Lehrer on Daniel Kahneman’s New Book: 

‘(Princeton psychologist) Daniel Kahneman’s … disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed the way that we think about thinking. While philosophers, economists and social scientists had assumed for centuries that human beings are rational agents, Mr. Kahneman and his scientific partner, the late Amos Tversky, demonstrated that we’re not nearly as rational as we like to believe…’ (via WSJ).

Related:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/opinion/brooks-who-you-are.html?src=me&ref=general (nytimes.com)
• “Kahneman and Tversky were not given to broad claims. But the work they and others did led to the…” (underpaidgenius.com)
• Op-Ed Columnist: Who You Are (nytimes.com)