“According to this view—long established in psychology and recently popularized by psychologist [[Daniel Kahneman]]’s Thinking, Fast and Slow—some cognitive processes are fast, effortless, largely unconscious, and they belong to System 1. Reading a simple text, forming a first impression of someone, navigating well-known streets all belong to System 1. “**The intuitions that form System 1 are, on the whole, effective, yet they are also susceptible to systematic biases**. For instance, we seem to make judgments of people’s competence or trustworthiness on the basis of facial traits. These judgments may have some limited reliability, but they should be easily superseded by stronger cues—such as how the person actually behaves. This is when System 2 is supposed to kick in. “Relying on slow, effortful, reflective processes, System 2 takes over when System 1 fails, **correcting our mistaken intuitions with its more objective processes and more rational rules**. This is the common dual-process narrative.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[systems-thinking]], [[type-one-thinking]], [[type-two-thinking]], [[mental-models]], [[skepticism]], **Source** -- [[260102102051 - B - Not Born Yesterday]]