Psychiatry, psychology, mental, mind matters

"Thinking Fast & Slow" by Daniel Kahneman explores how we use a standard model of the world to provide quick responses to most situations, which avoids the need to think - and the trouble this can cause. It then illustrates some of the prejudices and flawed logic behind this and our deeper thought processes.

I believe it explains why we laugh at jokes; typically a situation that suddenly breaks from the standard model and causes a flip into thinking mode. But that could be open to debate.

Although the ideas are powerful, it's possibly the most tedious book I have ever read - it's like walking through treacle IMHO.

There's some accessible articles written on this...thinking costs energy/can be unpleasant so as a species we rely on heuristics.

Which can lead to mental health issues (inaccurate thinking can cause issues...) and social issues (people closing their minds to actual evidence leading to harmful policies).

Amazon has a bucket load of books on popular psychology...maybe there's a more accessible one? :)