Thinking 101 by Woo-kyoung Ahn

An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better.a€ -
Gretchen Rubin
Award-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers "A MUSTREAD - a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge
research into how people think.a€ (Paul Bloom)
"A FUN exploration.a€ - Dax Shepard
Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale called "Thinkinga€ to
help students examine the biases that cause so many problems in their daily
lives. It quickly became one of the universitya's most popular courses. Now,
for the first time, Ahn presents key insights from her years of teaching and
research in a book for everyone.
She shows how "thinking problemsa€ stand behind a wide range of
challenges, from common, self-inflicted daily aggravations to our most
pressing societal issues and inequities. Throughout, Ahn draws on decades of
research from other cognitive psychologists, as well as from her own
groundbreaking studies. And she presents it all in a compellingly readable
style that uses fun examples from pop culture, anecdotes from her own life,
and illuminating stories from history and the headlines.
Thinking 101 is a book that goes far beyond other books on thinking, showing
how we can improve not just our own daily lives through better awareness of
our biases but also the lives of everyone around us. It is (...)

WOO-KYOUNG AHN is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at
Yale University. After receiving her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was assistant professor at Yale University
and associate professor at Vanderbilt University. In 2022, she received Yale's
Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences. Her research
on thinking biases has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and
she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association
for Psychological Science. Thinking 101 is her first book.

Flatiron Books
On Sale: Sep 26/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages
Includes 7 black-and-white figures throughout
9781250805973 • $24.99 • pb
Science / Cognitive Science