{"product_id":"snapshots-of-the-mind-isbn-9780262544429","title":"Snapshots of the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow people make decisions, size up situations, spot anomalies, and anticipate problems in real-world settings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Klein, author of the bestselling \u003cu\u003eSources of Power\u003c\/u\u003e, is the cognitive psychologist who discovered how people actually make decisions, particularly under time pressure and uncertainty. In \u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers a set of short essays—“snapshots” of different aspects of cognitive functioning in real-world settings that will help us learn to recognize the cognitive processes that underlie and drive performance. In these essays Klein provides practical tools for escaping fixation on initial hunches and learning to detect the ways that people make decisions, size up situations, spot anomalies, and anticipate problems. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e grows out of the Naturalistic Decision Making movement, which studies how decision makers handle uncertainty and complexity in high-stakes situations. In the essays, Klein examines how people make tough choices and assessments in the real-world, discussing such topics as training, information technology, teamwork, expertise, and insights. Debunking the idea that artificial intelligence will soon take over human decision making, he argues instead for machines that make us smarter and expand our expertise. He describes his Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model, which has been incorporated into Army doctrine and was one of the inspirations for Malcolm Gladwell’s \u003ci\u003eBlink\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh takes on such topics as confirmation bias, anomaly detection, intuition, anticipatory thinking and perspective-taking. Readers come away attuned to the primary aspects of expert cognition: the mindsets, mental models, and perceptual sensitivity.1 Introduction: Learning to See Cognition 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Cognitive Dimension 9\u003cbr\u003e3 Rationalist Fever Dreams 43\u003cbr\u003e4 Smarter Machines or Machines That Make Us Smarter?—Information Technology versus Expertise 99\u003cbr\u003e5 Seeing the Invisible—Expertise 149\u003cbr\u003e6 Making Discoveries—Speculative Thinking 197\u003cbr\u003e7 Getting Stronger—Training 249\u003cbr\u003e8 Other Minds—Teamwork 307\u003cbr\u003e9 Making Waves—Tools and Tactics for Improvement 349\u003cbr\u003eAfterword 411\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 413\u003cbr\u003eReferences 417\u003cbr\u003eIndex 427“I know of no one who combines theory and observation—intellectual rigor and painstaking observation of the real world—so brilliantly and gracefully as Gary Klein.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Malcolm Gladwell author of \u003ci\u003eOutliers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlink\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gary Klein is a living example of how useful applied psychology can be when it is done well . . . Klein and I disagree on many things. But I am convinced that there should be more psychologists like him, and that the art and science of observing behavior should have a larger place in our thinking and in our curricula than it does at present.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate​, Princeton University, author of\u003ci\u003e Thinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eGary Klein is Senior Scientist at MacroCognition LLC and Chairman and Chief scientist at ShadowBox LLC. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSeeing What Others Don’t\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStreetlights and Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSources of Power\u003c\/i\u003e (the last two published by the MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301389652197,"sku":"NP9780262544429","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544429.jpg?v=1767736821","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/snapshots-of-the-mind-isbn-9780262544429","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}