“intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I propose a simple account of how we generate intuitive opinions on complex matters. If a satisfactory answer to a hard question… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1. The” — 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
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which… — 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
