“One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“time meet a patient who shares a disturbing tale of multiple mistakes in his previous treatment. He has been seen by several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions… — 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
“Many intelligent and well-informed people were keenly interested in the future of the economy and did not believe a catastrophe was imminent;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The children were watched through a one-way mirror, and the film that shows their behavior during the waiting time always has the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially… — 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
