Thinking, Fast and Slow

6: Norms, Surprises, and Causes
An observer
: Daniel Kahneman and Dale T. Miller, “Norm Theory: Comparing Reality to
Its Alternatives,” 
Psychological Review
93 (1986): 136–53.
“tattoo on my back”
: Jos J. A. Van Berkum, “Understanding Sentences in Context: What
Brain Waves Can Tell Us,” 
Current Directions in Psychological Science
17 (2008): 376–
80.
the word
pickpocket: Ran R. Hassin, John A. Bargh, and James S. Uleman, “Spontaneous
Causal Inferences,” 
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
38 (2002): 515–22.
indicate surprise
: Albert Michotte, 
The Perception of Causality
(Andover, MA: Methuen,
1963). Alan M. Leslie and Stephanie Keeble, “Do Six-Month-Old Infants Perceive
Causality?” 
Cognition
25 (1987): 265–88.
explosive finale
: Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel, “An Experimental Study of
Apparent Behavior,” 
American Journal of Psychology
13 (1944): 243–59.
identify bullies and victims
: Leslie and Keeble, “Do Six-Month-Old Infants Perceive
Causality?”
as we die
: Paul Bloom, “Is God an Accident?” 
Atlantic
, December 2005.
7: A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions
elegant experiment
: Daniel T. Gilbert, Douglas S. Krull, and Patrick S. Malone,

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“Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some Problems in the Rejection of False Information,”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
59 (1990): 601–13.
descriptions of two people
: Solomon E. Asch, “Forming {#823.
Impressions of Personality,” 
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychol
ogy 41 (1946): 258–
90.
all six adjectives
: Ibid.
Wisdom of Crowds: James Surowiecki, 
The Wisdom of Crowds
(New York: Anchor
Books, 2005).
one-sided evidence
: Lyle A. Brenner, Derek J. Koehler, and Amos Tversky, “On the
Evaluation of One-Sided Evidence,” 
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
9 (1996):
59–70.