If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

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.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.