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
Daniel Kahneman quotes about
people problem expertise
One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.
boundaries expertise
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.
intuition
There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.
intuition values
You should not take your intuitions at face value.
people done take-a-chance
Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.
business compared effects enormity huge
There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.
jumping mind machines
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
numbers facts would-be
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
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.
blind blindness obvious
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
emotional thinking attention
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
roles world events
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
keys effort decision
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
experts wrecks cockroaches
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.