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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Average Due Investor Lower Market Primarily Return Than Timing

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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

~Daniel Kahneman

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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

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Topics: Believe Believes Between Difficult Distinguish Person Say They Say Very

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Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

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Topics: Diagnosis Even Feedback Intuitive Likely Lot Make Often People Relevant Reliable Very Willing Wrong

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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

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Topics: Biology Combination Culture Intuitively Minds Our Receptive Religion Some Through

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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

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Topics: Believe Due Finding Going Hard Likely Reflecting Some Some Things Things You

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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

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Topics: Experiences Get Keep Memory Only Our Out Set Stories Story Tell Tells Us

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Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: About Also Because Case Come Compelling Doubting Even Experience Happens Less Little Memories Odd Pretty Remember See Sense Some Than Them True Truth Very You

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People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Beings Career Complex Complexity Fascinated Get Human Human Beings Know Life Lived My Life People Psychologist Very You

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If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Becomes Better Better Off Give Going Idea Know Make Off People Pleasure Questionable Them Then Trust Will You

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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