Daniel Kahneman quotes - page 5

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. (Daniel Kahneman)
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 exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave. View quote
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Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day. View quote
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Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. View quote
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My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy. View quote
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Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident. View quote
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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other. View quote
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important. View quote
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. View quote
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By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones. View quote
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People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. (Daniel Kahneman)
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. View quote
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It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it. View quote
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised. View quote
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Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish. View quote
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There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier. View quote
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My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience. View quote
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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 to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. View quote
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure. View quote
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The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. View quote
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You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person. (Daniel Kahneman)
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are. View quote
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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. View quote
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. View quote
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Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally. View quote
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