Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of... →
Daniel Kahneman
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But... →
If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.
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... →
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept... →
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... →
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.