Kahneman, Daniel

"The halo effect means your impression of someone influences your opinion of their specific traits."

"Availability bias makes unusual events loom larger in our minds."

"Most of us view the world as more stable than it is."

"The future is uncertain, but people need to act as if they understand it."

"Luck plays a far larger role in life than most people are ready to admit."

"The experiencing self and the remembering self tell us different stories."

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

"It is easier to construct a narrative about change than about stability."

"Framing effects show that how a choice is presented determines our decisions."

"We are more impressed by consistency than by accuracy."

"Attention is a limited resource, and we cannot attend to everything at once."

"System 2 allocates attention to effortful mental activities."

"When the stakes are high, people are more biased, not less."

"Overconfidence grows with the impression of understanding."

"People are rarely as naive or as irrational as economists assume."

"The way you frame a problem often determines whether you will solve it."

"Hindsight bias makes the past appear far more predictable than it actually was."

"We tend to remember the punch line and forget the setup."

"Groupthink is the enemy of good decision-making."

"Subjective well-being is determined more by how you live than what you have."

"The illusion of understanding is very powerful."

"Regression to the mean is a pervasive phenomenon that people fail to recognize."

"The more confident someone seems, the more likely you are to believe them."

"Loss aversion is more powerful than the pleasure of gain."

"We base judgments on the most salient information available."

"The strength of a belief is not a reliable guide to its truth."

"Correlation is not causation, yet we constantly mistake one for the other."

"You are more likely to be fooled by randomness in small samples."

"The curse of knowledge prevents you from understanding what it is like not to know."

"We are intuitive statisticians making rapid judgments with imperfect information."