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Daniel Kahneman


Israeli
March 5, 1934
Psychologist
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We think of our future as anticipated memories.


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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.


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Tags: Just Would Us
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My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.


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


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If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.


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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.


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Tags: Time Good Down
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.


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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
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There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.


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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.


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I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.


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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
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We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
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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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Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.
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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 over an expanding pie.
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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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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.
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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 these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
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If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.
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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
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Tags: Age Just Some
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 decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.
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We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
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I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.
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