Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

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

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.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

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