Daniel Kahneman Quotes
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Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.
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There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.
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All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.
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He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases.
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He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.
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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
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Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.
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I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
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I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
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People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
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There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
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We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.