However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.
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 growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System...
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect m...
The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
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 always known this fact.
The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven ...
...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer refuted a myth prevalent among undergraduates about the vocabulary that professors find mos...
The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.
Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as well by selecting a set of scores that have some validity for predicting the outcome and adjusting the values to make them comparable (by using standard...
