My problem with this book is that it relies heavily on priming studies. The idea is that you "primed" them for some set of behaviors.

Here's an example of a study that supposedly supports this. Participants held a pen in their mouth in one of two ways:

- Between the teeth, without touching the lips. This activates some of the muscles used in smiling.

- Between the lips, without using the teeth. This inhibits those smile-related muscles.

If you think that's stupid and reading into this is foolish it's because it is. A lot of the arguments in this book are built in a delicate set of assumptions that are supported by equally ridiculous and contrived experiments, many of which cannot be reproduced.

Discussions from 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030791

Has anything came back to reestablish this book as worth the read ?

Daniel Kahneman is a big EA (Effective Altruism) advocate, aka the cult that all the tech elites such as Sam Altman, Elon Musk are a part of.

The book is selling you on a belief system (i.e. System1/System2). Then it uses some cherry picked data to set up a straw man to rationalize his idea of how the mind works. Death in a Shallow Pond is a good rebuttal to this even if it doesn't address the book directly.