Daniel Kahneman

“we are statistically punished for being nice”

— Daniel Kahneman

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

— Daniel Kahneman

“Belief in the Law of Small Numbers.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Self-criticism is one of the functions of System 2.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“the brain is a machine for jumping to conclusions”

— Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The emotional tail wags the rational dog.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

— Daniel Kahneman

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

— Daniel Kahneman

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

— Daniel Kahneman

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

— Daniel Kahneman

“We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The statement “Hitler loved dogs and little children” is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of…

— Daniel Kahneman

You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting…

— Daniel Kahneman

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from…

— Daniel Kahneman

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

— Daniel Kahneman

“beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it…

— Daniel Kahneman

“As you become skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes. Studies of the brain have shown that the pattern of…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Most of us are pitch-perfect in detecting anger in the first word of a telephone call, recognize as we enter a room…

— Daniel Kahneman

“A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very…

— Daniel Kahneman

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well…

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

“I had stumbled onto a significant fact of the human condition: the feedback to which life exposes us is perverse. Because we…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able…

— Daniel Kahneman

“focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention. The most dramatic demonstration was offered…

— Daniel Kahneman

“To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbett and Borgida…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The various causes of ease or strain have interchangeable effects. When you are in a state of cognitive ease, you are probably…

— Daniel Kahneman

“System 1 is designed to jump to conclusions from little evidence—and it is not designed to know the size of its jumps.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each…

— Daniel Kahneman

“A random event, by definition, does not lend itself to explanation, but collections of random events do behave in a highly regular…

— Daniel Kahneman

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

— Daniel Kahneman