Facts about Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Approximately 1 million copies of Thinking, Fast and Slow were sold in its first year of publication, establishing Kahneman's research on cognitive biases as a mainstream cultural phenomenon.
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Kahneman's experiments on the planning fallacy demonstrated that people consistently underestimate project completion times by approximately 25 percent, even when informed of similar past projects' delays.
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Kahneman's research on anchoring bias showed that even judges with legal expertise were significantly influenced by random numbers when determining appropriate prison sentences.
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The 2011 bestseller spent over 400 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, making it one of the most commercially successful psychology books ever published.
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Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, thirteen years after publishing his foundational research on cognitive biases with Amos Tversky.