“The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.”
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 241
affect heuristic,
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 255
where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 256
This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 262
Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 382
As you become skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 581
In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 585
associative activation: ideas that have been evoked trigger many other ideas, in a spreading cascade of activity in your brain.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 852
This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 905
The general theme of these findings is that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 946
Cognitive strain is affected by both the current level of effort and the presence of unmet demands.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1007
“The experience of familiarity has a simple but powerful quality of ‘pastness’ that seems to indicate that it is a direct reflection of prior experience.”
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1030
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1056
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1176
how people manage to make judgments of probability without knowing precisely what probability is.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1669
when called upon to judge probability, people actually judge something else and believe they have judged probability.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1671
“If you can’t solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.”
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1674
Random processes produce many sequences that convince people that the process is not random after all.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1924
“To the untrained eye,” Feller remarks, “randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster.”
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 1932
you wish to estimate the size of a category or the frequency of an event, but you report an impression of the ease with which instances come to mind.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 2190
The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 2325
adding detail to scenarios makes them more persuasive, but less likely to come true.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 2694
joint evaluation, because it allows a comparison of the two sets.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 2705
causal base rates: a stereotypical trait that is attributed to an individual, and a significant feature of the situation that affects an individual’s outcome.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 2887
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3381
We can know something only if it is both true and knowable.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3386
To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3395
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3401
In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3493
Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3576
the person who acquires more knowledge develops an enhanced illusion of her skill and becomes unrealistically overconfident.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3708
The first lesson is that errors of prediction are inevitable because the world is unpredictable.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3729
high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 3729
the confidence that people have in their intuitions is not a reliable guide to their validity. In other words, do not trust anyone—including yourself—to tell you how much you should trust their judgment.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 4068
“losses loom larger than gains” and that people are loss averse.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 4785
What is the smallest gain that I need to balance an equal chance to lose $100?
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 4786
Rabin’s theorem shows that anyone who rejects a favorable gamble with small stakes is mathematically committed to a foolish level of risk aversion for some larger gamble.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 4811
The self is more motivated to avoid bad self-definitions than to pursue good ones.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, loc. 5095
