I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.