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
stories may individual
An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.
heuristics shortcuts produce
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
emotional errors people
To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.
laziness built
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
outcomes planning assuming
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
doe misery
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
loneliness emotional people
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.
groups individual extremes
Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
mistake mean people
Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.
willingness
I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.
errors objectives observers
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.
weekend differences weekdays
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
weekend average hours
The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.
complexity fascinated human life people
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.