Daniel Kahneman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Daniel Kahneman quotes and sayings page 2 (psychologist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 114 we have.
“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.”
“There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.”
“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.”
“People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.”
“Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.”
“The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.”
“Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.”
“My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.”
“I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.”
“Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.”
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