Daniel Kahneman Quotes
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Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.
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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 enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
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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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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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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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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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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
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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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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
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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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If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.
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It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
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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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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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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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The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.
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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
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People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
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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.