Daniel Kahneman Quotes

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• It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes…
• It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want…
• Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that…
• Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a…
• Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain…
• Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you…
• Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not…
• People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They…
• Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their…
• The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just…
• The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan,…
• There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will…
• We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all…
• A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.
• Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
• People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the…
• I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a…
• The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a…
• A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have…
• Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the…

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