People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]

I grew up in Europe during [World War II] and so I have a European attitude on the concept of occupation.

If you look at life satisfaction and what makes people satisfied with their lives, most of it has a lot to do with people’s goals.

I hate being angry and so I hate the adversary exchanges that you frequently find in the social sciences and actually in the physical sciences as well where people are snide and they use sarcasm. 

A pet peeve that I have in the context of happiness research is that it’s called happiness research.

I think it’s not always right that people should follow their passion.  There is a questionnaire that people fill out just before they enter college that has been going on […]

The ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge.

In some crucial areas of human cognition, we don’t know and we can’t fully trust ourselves. On the bright side, Daniel Kahneman’s work shows that the kinds of errors we […]

Ever wondered what you were thinking after making a bad decision? Daniel Kahneman explains.

Confidence is a mark of intuitive thinking regardless of whether intuitive thinking is expert intuitive thinking or heuristic intuitive thinking.