Social psychologist and author
Richard Nisbett is an American social psychologist and the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor at the University of Michigan. His books, including The Geography of Thought and Mindware, explore how culture shapes cognition and how people can improve their reasoning and decision making.
by Richard Nisbett
Nisbett presents tools from statistics, logic, and behavioural economics that sharpen everyday reasoning. These scientific thinking frameworks are teachable and dramatically improve judgement quality.
The books Richard Nisbett references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Robert Cialdini
Cialdini identifies six universal principles of persuasion: reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity. Understanding these triggers explains why we say yes, and how others get us to comply.
Who Richard draws from, and who draws from Richard — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.