Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.” — 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
We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the central fact of our existence is that time is the ultimate finite resource, but the remembering self ignores that reality” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“prepared for the future as you could be. An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence—prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There… — 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
