“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
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“A team of researchers at the University of Oregon explored the link between cognitive control and intelligence in several ways, including an… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often)… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Researchers have applied diverse methods to examine the connection between thinking and self-control. Some have addressed it by asking the correlation question:… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet… — 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
