Psychology Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

— Daniel Kahneman

“pupils are sensitive indicators of mental effort—”

— Daniel Kahneman

“teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

— Daniel Kahneman

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

— Daniel Kahneman

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the…

— Daniel Kahneman

“all variants of voluntary effort—cognitive, emotional, or physical—draw at least partly on a shared pool of mental energy.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind…

— Daniel Kahneman

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to…

— Daniel Kahneman

... 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

“The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of it is by the great Herbert Simon, who…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The most surprising discovery made by Baumeister’s group shows, as he puts it, that the idea of mental energy is more than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our…

— Daniel Kahneman

“To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbett and Borgida…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

“Social psychology comes into the picture here, because the answer that a truthful CFO would offer is plainly ridiculous. A CFO who…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The conclusion is that the ease with which instances come to mind is a System 1 heuristic, which is replaced by a…

— Daniel Kahneman

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely…

— Daniel Kahneman

“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Exaggerated Emotional Coherence (Halo Effect) If you like the president’s politics, you probably like his voice and his appearance as well. The…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Consider the following: “Will Mindik be a good leader? She is intelligent and strong…” An answer quickly came to your mind, and…

— Daniel Kahneman

“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to…

— Daniel Kahneman

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at…

— Daniel Kahneman

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

“two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

“People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits…

— Daniel Kahneman

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.…

— Daniel Kahneman