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People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Appearance Boldness Despise Dominant Doubt Enemies Friendly Friends Leaders Like Look Optimistic People Protracted Quick Timidity Trigger Who

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All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Big Big Deal Deal Experiences Know Mean Memory Our Past Personal Roughly Sort Storage Us Very

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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

~Daniel Kahneman

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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Alternative Associations Descriptions Different Emotions Evoke Reality Same

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Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

~Daniel Kahneman

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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Been Better Example Expertise Experts Good Good Example Just Long-Term Monkey Picking Political Possible Shown Stock Strategic Than Which

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My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Decision Decision Making Evolved Future Happy Interest Know Make Making People Question Raising Them Themselves Things Want Well-Being Whether Will

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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

Topics: Action Contrary Emotions Expect Importance Improve Impulses Intuition Involve Likely No Reason Perhaps Powerful Problem Problems Quality Reason Strong

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The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: About Answers College Does Episodes Evaluation Experiencing Hospital Hurt Just Left Life Lives Moment Now Overall Periods Question Questions Remembering Self Since Stay Thinking Were Years You

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People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Concerns Context Determined Fourth Genetic Immediate Like Make-Up Mood Only Other People Personality Place Primarily Really Second Second Place Things Third Worries

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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