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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Best Big Context Decisions Feelings Friends Help Impressed Overly Serve Share Sometimes Them Those Understand Who Will You Your

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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Clearly Decision-Making Fallible Highly Know Rely Should Society

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Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Argue Coast Effort Mental Most Rare Relatively Time Would

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Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Bias Hindsight Makes Surprises Vanish

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We think of our future as anticipated memories.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Anticipated Future Memories Our Think

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An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Attractive Chance Easily Failure Far Investment Mind More Recognize Said Same Sounds Success Than

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If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Because Finding Gains Larger Less Loom Losses Major Much Tend Terms Than Think Very Wealth You

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: About Important Life Nothing Think Thinking While You

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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Bad Bad News Brains Contain Designed Give Humans Mechanism News Priority

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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

Topics: Cause Know Person Really Recognize Someone Something Surprised You

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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