Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahnemanis 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. His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth5 March 1934
CountryIsrael
reality simple people
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.
jumping mind machines
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
memories instagram generations
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory
believe people way
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.
past intuition
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
memories thinking our-future
We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.
memories stories our-memories
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
blind blindness obvious
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
real leader danger
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
people mind quality
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
writing sleep exercise
Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.
self may doe
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
devices experts mechanism mind work
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.
gains larger losses major tend terms
If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.