Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the… — 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
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The conclusion is that the ease with which instances come to mind is a System 1 heuristic, which is replaced by a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, students of policy have noted that the availability heuristic helps explain why some issues are highly salient in the public’s… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and… — 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
... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“We normally avoid mental overload by dividing our tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Social psychology comes into the picture here, because the answer that a truthful CFO would offer is plainly ridiculous. A CFO who… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbett and Borgida… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our… — 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
“Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Consider the following: “Will Mindik be a good leader? She is intelligent and strong…” An answer quickly came to your mind, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new… — 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 evidence presents a profound challenge to the idea that humans have consistent preferences and know how to maximize them, a cornerstone… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“all variants of voluntary effort—cognitive, emotional, or physical—draw at least partly on a shared pool of mental energy.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it… — 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
