“More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, explored these so-called expert predictions in a landmark twenty-year study, which he published… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Part 2 updates the study of judgment heuristics and explores a major puzzle: Why is it so difficult for us to think… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbett and Borgida… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“automatic functions of System 1, but they depend on the allocation of some attention to the relevant stimulus. The authors note that… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
