Amos Tversky

"Our emotional reactions to outcomes influence our subsequent judgments."

"The affect heuristic leads us to make judgments based on feelings."

"Temporal discounting leads us to overvalue immediate rewards."

"We are myopic about the future consequences of our choices."

"People care about fairness, even when it costs them money."

"Reciprocity is a powerful human motivation."

"Social preferences influence economic decisions in important ways."

"Cooperation is more prevalent than pure self-interest would predict."

"Trust is essential for human interaction."

"Punishment of unfair behavior is often irrational but widely practiced."

"Humans are willing to punish cheaters even at a cost to themselves."

"Moral intuitions are often stronger than explicit reasoning."

"People are guided by rules and norms, not just calculations."

"Social comparison influences our sense of well-being."

"Adaptation to new circumstances is faster than we expect."

"We overestimate the duration of emotional reactions to events."

"The hedonic treadmill operates for both good and bad events."

"Wealth beyond a certain point has diminishing effects on happiness."

"Status is relative, not absolute."

"We care more about relative position than absolute position."

"Income inequality matters for well-being."

"People focus too much on consumption and not enough on experience."

"Time is the ultimate scarce resource."

"How we spend our time determines our lives."

"The intensity of experience matters less than the number of experiences."

"We remember experiences poorly, focusing on peaks and endings."

"The peak-end effect influences how we evaluate experiences."

"Duration neglect leads us to misjudge the quality of experiences."

"Good decisions require good data and good reasoning."

"We are often uncertain about what we want."