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Nervousness. after one of my book events, a woman came to me and she said i'm racist. not me. she's about herself. >> she said you were racist. >> no, no, she was saying she herself is racist and she has these thoughts that come into her mind and she knows they're wrong but she still can't help thinking them. that's part of what we're dealing with. >> what was your apply? what was your reapply? >> i went into associate yol gist mode. i wanted to know, how does your mind work? i want to know how you think so i can understand it. i felt like jane good y'all and finally i met a chimp. let's talk ...

a recorder conversation between the captain and the port authority. pretty damning stuff in there. what's happening right now? the captain is being questioned. and new this morning, the number of the missing much higher than we first reported. >> and, also, in politics, when you're the front runner, it's like you've got the bull's eye on your back. that would be mitt romney where rick perry and everyone else, rick santorum, all gunning for myth romney. the race is tight. we're going to break it all down for you. >> you're going to have to dig a little deeper when you fill up this mor...

How would you describe this difference? >> most of the time we think fast. most of the time we're expert at what we're doing. most of the time what we're doing is right. we do it with very little work and very little effort. there is slow thinking, effortful, it's hard work. it turns out by and large we clearly -- most people are wired to avoid it. we try to do as little as possible of the slow thinking. very hard work. so sometimes the fast thinking delivers the wrong suggestion and the slow thinking doesn't block it, than people come out with mistakes. >> people point out that racism is kind...

Block it, than people come out with mistakes. >> people point out that racism is kind of a product of that kind of very quick thinking. prejudice comes to mind quickly. >> of course. we have associations to i think so we have associations to tables and to dogs and cats and harvard professors and that's the way the mind works. it's an association machine. >> when you think about this, does it make you feel the way in this economics is done, the way we think about economics is all wrong? because there is a sense in which what you're describing is the human capacity to really make false judgments...

harvard physicist. a look at the way your mind works and doesn't. fascinating conversation with nobel prize winner daniel kahneman. a big birthday but an awkward time to throw a big birthday bash. i'll explain. first my take. it's the start of the new year and we will do predictions on this show. i thought i'd try my own hand at some before asking others to risk their reputations. and in the spirit of keeping myself honest, i'm going to look back at what i said and wrote in "time" magazine at the start of last year and see how i did. it's always risky to stick your neck out and h...