How We Decide, is a 2009 book by journalist Jonah Lehrer, 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 has been caught in numerous falsifications in his œuvre of writings, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the book was taken "off sale" after an internal review.[1]
Summary edit
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
See also edit
Similarly themed books include:
References edit
- ^ "'How We Decide', Jonah Lehrer Book, Being Pulled From Shelves". Huffington Post. 2013-03-01. Archived from the original on March 2, 2013.
External links edit
- Powells books references commercial reviews
- Los Angeles Times review
- Time Magazine review
- “And Now Jonah Lehrer’s Second Book Is Being Pulled From Stores”
- “Publisher Pulls Jonah Lehrer’s ‘How We Decide’ From Stores”
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