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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. Daniel Kahneman
Loneliness Suffering Poverty Others Would Emotional Clearly Like Policy Reduce Source Elderly Certainly
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish. Daniel Kahneman
Vanish Bias Hindsight Makes Surprises
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. Daniel Kahneman
Seems Attention Substantial Process Your Extent Adaptation
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
Control No Control Over Know Doing Very Influenced Automatic Things
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. Daniel Kahneman
Nature Artificial Intelligence Intelligence AI Will Shortcuts Both True Biases Very Artificial Human Produce Necessarily Humans
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. Daniel Kahneman
People Difficult Negotiations Easygoing More Tend Allocation Over Pie Because Losses Expanding Much Require Bargain Shrinking
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that. Daniel Kahneman
Society Rely Highly Clearly Know Fallible Decision-Making Should
When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity. Daniel Kahneman
Life Good People Money Prosperity Good Life Out Tends Idea Material Denmark Lot Same Themselves Successful Turns Evaluate Standard Compare Universal
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. Daniel Kahneman
Progress Better Lost Past Sense One Thing Volatility Had Getting Getting Better In The Past Thing Things
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable. Daniel Kahneman
Day You Every Day People Money Miserable Every Changes Project Worst Possible Possible Thing Bad Constantly Following Bad Idea Count Idea Long-Term Because Losses Very Stocks Owning Short-Term Sensitive Your Thing
We think of our future as anticipated memories. Daniel Kahneman
Future Memories Think Our Anticipated
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
Age Made Before Thinking Extreme Intuitive Prone Some Except Study Mostly Attribute Fallacy Issues Effects Just Predictions Planning
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make. Daniel Kahneman
People Randomness Make Lot Decisions
You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person. Daniel Kahneman
You Cause Recognize Someone Something Know Surprised Person Really
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. Daniel Kahneman
You Book Think Case Written Read Then Differently
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. Daniel Kahneman
Time You Point Idea Well Makes How Question Done Psychology Ask
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. Daniel Kahneman
You Thinking State About Emotional Attention Lot Really Your Paying
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
Quality Emotions Problem Strong Problems Action Intuition No Reason Powerful Perhaps Importance Involve Likely Contrary Expect Improve Impulses Reason
Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens. Daniel Kahneman
Voting Stronger Say Would Guy Fact He Nobody Partly Because Got In Fact Happens Chin
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. Daniel Kahneman
Time Rare Relatively Would Mental Argue Most Effort Coast
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off. Daniel Kahneman
People Strong Better Too Seem Better Off Feel Economy Talk Off Being Being Strong
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability. Daniel Kahneman
People Superior Other Presumption Ability Gives Mortals Know Understand Math Them Who
The concept of happiness has to be reorganised. Daniel Kahneman
Happiness Concept
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities. Daniel Kahneman
Focus Isolation Securities Risk Tendency Individual Investments Investors Look
All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions. Daniel Kahneman
Better Made Would Would-Be Investors Fewer Just Decisions Us
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing. Daniel Kahneman
Timing Market Investor Primarily Return Due Than Average Lower
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