Quotes from Daniel Kahneman

I spend a few months each year in Berkeley, and one of my great pleasures there is a daily four-mile walk on a marked path in the hills, with a fine view of San Francisco Bay.

if we want people to feel that they have been treated with respect and dignity, we might have to tolerate some noise.

We pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliabillity, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

El exceso de optimismo de los directivos puede atribuirse tanto a sesgos cognitivos (errores en el procesamiento mental de la información) como a presiones organizativas.

If you want to deter misconduct, you should tolerate some noise.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of two words as representations of reality. Your body acted in an attenuated replica of reaction to the real thing, and the emotional response and physical recoil were part of the interpretation of the event. As cognitive scientists have emphasised in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Amos was more conservative than I was about hunches, and he cor- rectly pointed out that appealing to suggestion did not help us understand anchoring, because we did not know how to explain suggestion.

When it comes to rare probabilities, our mind is not designed to get things quite right. For the residents of a planet that may be exposed to events no one has yet experienced, this is not good news.

Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face "pops out" of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Everyone has some awareness of the limited capacity of attention, and our social behaviour makes allowances for these limitations

Averaging is mathematically guaranteed to reduce noise:

occupations by probability and by similarity in exactly the same way.

Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

THE VALUES ARE UNEQUAL BECAUSE OF LOSS AVERSION

We cannot hold a concept of well-being that ignores what people want

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La alegría, la emoción o la satisfacción son más importantes en Occidente que en Oriente, donde se aprecia más la calma" (Daniel Kahneman)

Regret, frustration, and self-satisfaction can also be affected by framing (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982). If

There was no particular reason to do so, but your mind automatically assumed a temporal sequence and a causal connection between the words bananas and vomit, forming a sketchy scenario in which bananas caused the sickness.

our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance

People in their 30s know where the world is going because they're going to do it. I'm in my 80s so I have no idea.

good judgments depend on what you know, how well you think, and how you think.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power