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Thinking: A memoir Paperback – February 4, 2021

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Thinking: A memoir is both an intellectual autobiography and a personal history. It describes how people reason and make inferences about the world, how people should reason and make those inferences, why errors in reasoning occur, how much you can improve reasoning, what kinds of problems are best solved by the conscious mind and what kinds by the unconscious mind, and how we should think about intelligence in light of answers to such questions.
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"Richard Nisbett is one of the most influential psychologists on the planet. But he's not just an important psychologist, he's an important thinker, full stop. This memoir chronicles a truly extraordinary life of scientific discovery, interdisciplinary dialogue and public engagement. It's astonishing how many of Nisbett's remarkable discoveries resonate far beyond his home field: in philosophy, no psychologist, with the possible exceptions of Freud, Skinner, and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, has had as much impact on how foundational issues are conceived."

John Doris, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University


"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world."

Malcolm Gladwell, The New York Times Book Review

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Richard E. Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He also taught psychology at Columbia University and Yale University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academy of Science, and he was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association and the Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Mentorship from the Association for Psychological Science. Most of his work has focused on social psychology and cognitive psychology. His book, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... And Why won the William James Book Award of the American Psychological Association.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Agora Books (February 4, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 219 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0578854678
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578854670
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Richard E. Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Michigan and one of the world's most respected psychologists. He received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association and many other national and international awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why and Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count have won multiple awards and have been translated into many languages. Most recently, he published Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking and Thinking: A Memoir.

"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world."

Malcolm Gladwell, The New York Times Book Review

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Denise Park
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant integration of everyday experiences and the scientific process of discovery
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2021
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This is a wonderful read! It provides a compelling view of how Dr. Ruchard Nisbett’s life experiences shaped his brilliant, pathfinding insights in how the mind—both his and yours— works.
It is totally entertaining while simultaneously providing the reader with a state of the art understanding of breakthroughs in the contemporary study of human thought.
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mgesteban
5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Nisbett’s Thinking: A memoir
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
Nisbett writes in a crisp, lucid, often humorous style. His sentences are generally short and to the point, without any extraneous wording. The reader may be tempted to move along as rapidly as his style permits. This would be a serious error as this two-hundred page book packs loads of important and valuable information that travels well beyond the borders of the field of psychology.

In a profession where we often find egocentric, jealous, and selfish individuals, Professor Nisbett showers praise on his many collaborators, both colleagues and graduate students. In fact, he makes the point in the first page of his book that “I couldn’t have learned as much as I did about the human mind without collaboration with such a wide range of people. Collaboration made it possible to develops view of intelligence very different from that of the scientists who specialize in that field.”

Many excellent researchers, regardless of their chosen academic field, devote a lifetime to digging deeper and deeper into a specific sub field. This is not the case for professor Nisbett. He digs deep, but as he progressed his interests expanded and he has become an authority in a substantial number of what, at times, may appear to be disparate fields of inquiry. Though a social psychologist, his concept of social psychology has few barriers. His book is not just a personal memoir. It is a compilation of the existing research in this field and of his own research over the years. It is not easy reading if you are not well versed in psychology. But it is very rewarding if read with care. Remarkably, the reader is likely to come to new opinions about such different notions as reasoning, the role of personality in behavior, the influence of genetic versus societal forces on behavior, the concept of intelligence or IQ, and even regional and national differences in behavior after having finished this memoir.

I have recommended Professor Nisbett’s Memoir to my two granddaughters, one of whom is a social worker and the others college student contemplating which area of psychology is best suited for her. In my opinion, this is a must read book for them. I have also recommended it to many of my professional colleagues most of whom are not psychologists. There are so many valuable and revealing aspects of this book that elucidate how we reason that every reader will “think” better about how we think.

Manuel A. Esteban
Emeritus Professor of French and Spanish Literatures
Emeritus President
California State University, Chico
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Rick Hoyle
5.0 out of 5 stars This wonderful book is chock-full of entertaining stories and impressive insights
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2022
Nisbett’s memoir is a fascinating read, describing in engaging and accessible style his journey from childhood wanderer to graduate studies in social psychology and a long, distinguished, and highly productive career as a psychological scientist. Although his intellectual roots are in social psychology, Nisbett’s interests often led him to study topics not typically considered by social psychologists such as obesity, consciousness, culture, and intelligence. In many cases, his contributions were seminal or raised serious concerns about accepted knowledge on a topic, resulting in a deeper and more accurate understanding of it. A highlight of the book are descriptions of his many collaborations with other luminaries in the field; especially entertaining are stories of his work during graduate school with Stanley Schachter and his interactions with Amos Tversky around ideas that ultimately won a Nobel Prize. Woven into these descriptions and stories are nuggets of wisdom of relevance for psychological scientists—from those just starting out to seasoned veterans. Nisbett’s Thinking is a gem!
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BJG
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021
I am not one for memoirs. But, Richard Nisbett’s Thinking is special in multiple ways. First, as a practicing social psychologist for over three decades, I was fascinated by Nisbett’s revealing experiences with some of the most significant social psychologists and some of the most powerful social psychology programs ever. More generally, Nisbett offers a trove of exceedingly perceptive reflections on the human condition. These insights come mainly from a pair of sources. One is an ever-acute mind that, even as a child, has allowed him to make brilliant observations about the major drivers of our conduct. The other is his legacy of some of the most important research findings in the field. Nisbett’s distillation and description of these findings left me with a set of new understandings that I could not have gotten anywhere else. Now that I have finished reading Thinking, I know exactly what I am going to do next—read it again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating personal story that intersects with much social psychological history
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2022
I was taken by so many aspects of this memoir. Richard Nisbett’s candor and humility shine throughout. He provides insights into many of his very important psychological research areas, such as the role of culture in shaping cognition, and the nature of intelligence. I loved the stories of his interactions with many notable social psychologists, such as Robert Zajonc. I’m a fan of social psychology history, so many of those stories were fascinating. I dog-eared several pages for future reference, because they will help me improve my teaching of psychology. But this book isn’t only for psychologists!
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Christopher Randall
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and Accessible
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2021
Once upon a time I e-mailed Richard Nisbett to see if he was interested in taking me on as a graduate student. It didn’t work out, and I went on to become a cognitive psychologist. Thus, when I had the opportunity to read Thinking: A Memoir I jumped at the chance. The book combines personal reflections with contemplation about his intellectual journey. There is enough substance here that I am likely to assign chapters to students in my undergraduate course on Judgment, Decision Making, and Reasoning because it makes for highly accessible reading. However, for use in the undergraduate classroom, it is best viewed as complementary to the primary journal literature rather than the sole source of information on issues such as reasoning, rationality, and judgment and decision-making.
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