Daniel Kahneman Quotes - Page 8

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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.

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  People, Important, Research

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• By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

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  Heuristics, Shortcuts, Produce

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• I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

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  Past, Intuition, Experts

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.

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  Memories, Cases, Compelling

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• We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

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  Knows

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

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• People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

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  Loneliness, Emotional, People

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• All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

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  Memories, Mean, Past

  "How Do Experiences Become Memories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Professors

  "This much I know: Daniel Kahneman". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."

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  Investing, Answers, Happens

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• People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

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  Thinking, People, Personality

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• The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

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  Concepts

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• Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

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  News, Individual, Flocks

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• An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

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  Stories, May, Individual

  "Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence". www.nytimes.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

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  Wise, Feelings, Risk

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

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  Champion, Different, World

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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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.

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  People, Coaching, Wave

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• Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

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  Surprise, Hindsight, Bias

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• My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

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  Memories, Elimination, Impression

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.441, Macmillan

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• It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

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  Want, Measurement, Well Being

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• Endlessly amused by people's minds.

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  People, Mind, Amused

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• Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

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  Mistake, Mean, People

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• People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

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  People, Workplace, Economy

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• There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

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  Focus, Risk, Looks

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• The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

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  Ideas, Psychology, Done

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.

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  Evolution, Quotations

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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