Tip-off: Daniel Kahneman to speak today

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Tryna fill your time this afternoon? Avoiding libraries because of the bad vibes? So are we. Good thing Daniel Kahneman is speaking at Yale today. Kahneman, currently professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, is a Nobel Prize winner and is widely hailed as the “father of behavioral economics.” His 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, summarizes decades’ worth of his research, and was a New York Times Bestseller.

Don’t have time to skim it before his talk, titled “A Psychological Perspective on Rationality,” this afternoon? (specifically, 4-5:30p.m., SSS 114.)  Here are some videos of Kahneman to get you hooked on his work—we promise it’s more interesting than your midterm papers.

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