Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

About Daniel Kahneman:

Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.
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For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

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My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

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Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and th...

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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

Daniel Kahneman

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

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There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.

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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

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An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

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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.

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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

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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.

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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

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I'm not a great believer in self-help.

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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume e...

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Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Kahneman
  • DescriptionIsraeli-American psychologist
  • BornMarch 5, 1934
  • CountryIsrael; United States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychologist; Economist; University Professor; Scientist; Educationist