“when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“When the question is difficult and a skilled solution is not available, intuition still has a shot: an answer may come to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in 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
“Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping… — 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
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“In a later chapter he describes a massive failure of intuition: Americans elected President Harding, whose only qualification for the position was… — 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. These findings… — 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
