“A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. — 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
The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“We pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliabillity, and as a result end up with… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child. — 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
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in… — 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
“One reason for the low correlations between individuals’ circumstances and their satisfaction with life is that both experienced happiness and life satisfaction… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the… — 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
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
