"When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition."
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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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"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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"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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"Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news."
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"Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right."
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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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"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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"Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen."
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"We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much."
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"Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering."
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"If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry.""
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"It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you."
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"We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star.""
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"Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales."
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"Endlessly amused by people's minds."
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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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"It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness."
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"Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them."
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"If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it."
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