Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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  • princessasem39149has quoted4 years ago
    he gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
  • deliceehas quoted3 years ago
    You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    Different groups of participants stated their willingness to pay to save 2,000, 20,000, or 200,000 birds. If saving birds is an economic good it should be a sum-like variable: saving 200,000 birds should be worth much more than saving 2,000 birds. In fact, the average contributions of the three groups were $80, $78, and $88 respectively. The number of birds made very little difference. What the participants reacted to, in all three groups, was a prototype—the awful image of a helpless bird drowning, its feathers soaked in thick oil. The almost complete neglect of quantity in such emotional contexts has been confirmed many times.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions of others. Many of us spontaneously anticipate how friends and colleagues will evaluate our choices; the quality and content of these anticipated judgments therefore matters.
  • Vanja Gorčevhas quoted25 days ago
    in many other choices that involve moderate or high probabilities, people tend to be risk averse in the domain of gains and risk seeking in the domain of losses.
  • Vanja Gorčevhas quotedlast month
    low-probability events are much more heavily weighted when described in terms of relative frequencies (how many) than when stated in more abstract terms of “chances,” “risk,” or “probability” (how likely).
  • Vanja Gorčevhas quotedlast month
    People overestimate the probabilities of unlikely events.
    People overweight unlikely events in their decisions.
  • Vanja Gorčevhas quotedlast month
    the decision weights that people assign to outcomes are not identical to the probabilities of these outcomes, contrary to the expectation principle. Improbable outcomes are overweighted—this is the possibility effect. Outcomes that are almost certain are underweighted relative to actual certainty. The expectation principle, by which values are weighted by their probability, is poor psychology.
  • Vanja Gorčevhas quotedlast month
    If people who lose suffer more than people who merely fail to gain, they may also deserve more protection from the law
  • Vanja Gorčevhas quotedlast month
    “Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The self is more motivated to avoid bad self-definitions than to pursue good ones. Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more than good ones.”
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