
Sources of Power
by Gary Klein
Klein studies how experts, firefighters, nurses, commanders, make fast decisions under pressure without formal analysis. Expert intuition works through pattern recognition and mental simulation.
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by Gary Klein
Klein studies how experts, firefighters, nurses, commanders, make fast decisions under pressure without formal analysis. Expert intuition works through pattern recognition and mental simulation.
In this collection, Sources of Power references 1 other book and is cited by 4 other books.
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It’s picked up by The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious and Thinking, Fast and Slow and 1 others.
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Engages with Gary Klein's Sources of Power on naturalistic decision-making when assessing the limits of expert intuition and recognition-primed judgement

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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Usby Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
Builds on Gary Klein's Sources of Power and naturalistic decision-making research, sharing Klein's view that expert intuition is ecologically rational
Kahneman engages extensively with Gary Klein's Sources of Power on intuitive expertise. The two famously co-authored "Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree" — Kahneman's view of when expert intuition can be trusted is shaped by years of debate with Klein.
Part 3 (Expert Intuition)
Greene lists Gary Klein's Sources of Power as a foundational source for his arguments about masterly intuition. Klein's research on expert firefighters and their rapid pattern-recognition is central to Greene's discussion of how masters develop high-level intuition over years of practice.
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