Daniel kahneman

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent...

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

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.

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.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves...

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

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.

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