It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.