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There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

~Daniel Kahneman

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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

~Daniel Kahneman

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Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

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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 of how people spend it would seem to be important.

~Daniel Kahneman

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There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.

~Daniel Kahneman

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Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

~Daniel Kahneman

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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.

~Daniel Kahneman

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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

~Daniel Kahneman

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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

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I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

~Daniel Kahneman

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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