Thinking by Richard E Nisbett

Thinking by Richard E Nisbett

Thinking: A memoir is both an intellectual autobiography and a personal history. It describes how people reason and make inferences about the world, how people should reason and make those inferences, why errors in reasoning occur, how much you can improve reasoning, what kinds of problems are best solved by the conscious mind and what kinds by the unconscious mind, and how we should think about intelligence in light of answers to such questions. The book starts with the author's early experiences, many of which directly influenced his subsequent research.

Richard E. Nisbett is a world-renowned psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He has won numerous national and international accolades, including the American Psychological Association's Medal for Outstanding Scientific Contributions. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. His books include The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently. ...and Why, as well as Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Matter, have won numerous honors and been translated into a number of languages.