Cognitive value of Kahneman's dichotomy

"I had one of the most satisfying eureka experiences of my career while teaching flight instructors in the Israeli Air Force about the psychology of effective training. I was telling them about an important principle of skill training: rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes. This proposition is supported by much evidence from research on pigeons, rats, humans, and other animals."



SUMMARY OF TWO SYSTEMS.
“This book has described the workings of the mind as an uneasy interaction between two fictitious characters: the automatic System 1 and the effortful System 2,” (page 415).




SYSTEM 1
Subconscious values, drives, beliefs that influence our “gut reactions.”

Jumps to conclusions regarding causality.

Operates effortlessly.

Can be wrong but is more often right.

Influenced by heuristics.


SYSTEM 2


Articulates judgments, makes choices, endorses or rationalizes ideas and feelings

Makes up stories to either confirm or deny those conclusions.

Requires conscious effort to engage. Can be wrong but is more often right.

Can be wrong or right depending on how hard it works.

Examines those heuristics when so inclined.


“The way to block errors that originate in System 1 is simple in principle: recognize the signs that you are in a cognitive minefield, slow down, and ask for reinforcement from System 2,”




(page 417).

https://erikreads.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/thinking-fast-and-slow-book-summary.pdf


A very interesting evol approach of this issue by  a statistician.


http://www.burns-stat.com/review-thinking-fast-slow-daniel-kahneman/


https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth?CMP=fb_gu


https://stanford.edu/~knutson/bad/glimcher08.pdf

https://www.hse.ru/data/2011/12/09/1259101786/Neuroeconomics.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3214669/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585257/