“The psychologist Paul Slovic has proposed an affect heuristic in which people let their likes and dislikes determine their beliefs about the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition. However, the focus on error does not denigrate human intelligence,… — 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
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“An inability to be guided by a “healthy fear” of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they… — 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
“Your political preference determines the arguments that you find compelling. If you like the current health policy, you believe its benefits are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The satiation level beyond which experienced well-being no longer increases was a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas (it could… — 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
