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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He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.
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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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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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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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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
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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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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
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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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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
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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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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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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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The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.