Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at… — 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
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. — 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
“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the… — 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
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The most surprising discovery made by Baumeister’s group shows, as he puts it, that the idea of mental energy is more than… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The conclusion is that the ease with which instances come to mind is a System 1 heuristic, which is replaced by a… — 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 mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Social psychology comes into the picture here, because the answer that a truthful CFO would offer is plainly ridiculous. A CFO who… — 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
“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
“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Exaggerated Emotional Coherence (Halo Effect) If you like the president’s politics, you probably like his voice and his appearance as well. The… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Consider the following: “Will Mindik be a good leader? She is intelligent and strong…” An answer quickly came to your mind, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“all variants of voluntary effort—cognitive, emotional, or physical—draw at least partly on a shared pool of mental energy.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — 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
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of it is by the great Herbert Simon, who… — 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
![“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of…” quote by Daniel Kahneman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/949/daniel-kahneman-431_abstract_people-are-very-good-at-thinking-about-a_2370436.jpg)
