Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make… — 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
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own. — 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
We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds,… — 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
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption… — 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
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these… — 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
Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and… — 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
People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military… — 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
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