“The first surprise is that people’s guesses are much more accurate than they would be by chance. I find this astonishing. A… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“It was beyond imagining that bad font influences judgments of truth and improves cognitive performance, or that an emotional response to the… — 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
