Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“You felt the burden of holding much material in memory, as you needed to keep track of where you were and of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, students of policy have noted that the availability heuristic helps explain why some issues are highly salient in the public’s… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The selective activation of compatible memories explains anchoring: the high and the low numbers activate different sets of ideas in memory. The… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“We normally avoid mental overload by dividing our tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“In several experiments, people were able to resist the effects of ego depletion when given a strong incentive to do so. In… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“On another occasion, Amos and I wondered about the rate of divorce among professors in our university. We noticed that the question… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“A crucial capability of System 2 is the adoption of “task sets”: it can program memory to obey an instruction that overrides… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“recent research that has introduced a distinction between two selves, the experiencing self and the remembering self, which do not have the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“This complex constellation of responses occurred quickly, automatically, and effortlessly. You did not will it and you could not stop it. It… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get… — 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
