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):

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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, “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.