Daniel Kahneman

“we are statistically punished for being nice”

— Daniel Kahneman

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

— Daniel Kahneman

“teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

— Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

— Daniel Kahneman

Endlessly amused by people's minds.

— Daniel Kahneman

You should not take your intuitions at face value.

— Daniel Kahneman

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives.”

— 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

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

— Daniel Kahneman

“most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

“it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.”

— Daniel Kahneman

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics…

— Daniel Kahneman

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

— Daniel Kahneman

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts…

— Daniel Kahneman

“You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The laziness of System 2 is an important fact of life, and the observation that representativeness can block the application of an…

— Daniel Kahneman

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's…

— Daniel Kahneman

“People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—”

— Daniel Kahneman

“People who buy lottery tickets in vast amounts show themselves willing to pay much more than expected value for very small chances…

— Daniel Kahneman

“I propose a simple account of how we generate intuitive opinions on complex matters. If a satisfactory answer to a hard question…

— Daniel Kahneman

“which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Words that you have seen before become easier to see again—you can identify them better than other words when they are shown…

— Daniel Kahneman

“What you learned about the Müller-Lyer illusion did not change the way you see the lines, but it changed your behavior. You…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The unsurprising idea that luck often contributes to success has surprising consequences when we apply it to the first two days of…

— Daniel Kahneman

Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is…

— Daniel Kahneman

“before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“As you can experience, the request to retrieve and say aloud your phone number or your spouse’s birthday also requires a brief…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The main function of System 1 is to maintain and update a model of your personal world, which represents what is normal…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Several teams of German psychologists that have studied the RAT in recent years have come up with remarkable discoveries about cognitive ease.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“I soon had an occasion to apply what I had learned from Feller. The Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, and…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic…

— Daniel Kahneman

“In a later chapter he describes a massive failure of intuition: Americans elected President Harding, whose only qualification for the position was…

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

“Richard Thaler tells of a discussion about decision making he had with the top managers of the 25 divisions of a large…

— Daniel Kahneman

“recent research that has introduced a distinction between two selves, the experiencing self and the remembering self, which do not have the…

— Daniel Kahneman