Daniel Kahneman Quotes
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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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We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.
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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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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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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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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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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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Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
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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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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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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
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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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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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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
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Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
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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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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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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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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.