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The Normal Well-Tempered Mind -- How to Win at Forecasting -- Smart Heuristics -- Affective Forecasting...Or...The Big Wombassa: What you Think you're Going to Get, and What you don't Get, When you Get What You Want -- Adventures in Behavioral Neurology-Or-What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature -- The Social Psychological Narrative-Or-What is Social Psychology, Anyway? -- The Adolescent Brain -- Essentialism -- Testosterone on my Mind and in my Brain -- Insight -- A Sense of Cleanliness -- The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics -- Life is the Way the Animal is in the World -- Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Piraha don't have Numbers -- The New Science of Morality -- The Marvels and the Flaws of Intuitive Thinking

A master class on how to develop productive thinking and decision-making skills draws on the expertise of leading psychologists and thinkers, including Daniel Dennett, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Simon Baron-Cohen.