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. Daniel Kahneman giveideamake Change image and share on social
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. Daniel Kahneman blindblindnessdesign Change image and share on social
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate. Daniel Kahneman deliberatefeltslow Change image and share on social
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 that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true. Daniel Kahneman casecompeldoubt share on social
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. Daniel Kahneman automaticcompletelycontrol Change image and share on social
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. Daniel Kahneman ageattributeeffect share on social
We have a very narrow view of what is going on. Daniel Kahneman narrowview Change image and share on social
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action. Daniel Kahneman actioncontraryemotion share on social
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. Daniel Kahneman assumeeconomicfocus Change image and share on social
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. Daniel Kahneman beautifuldeviceexpert Change image and share on social