Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

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

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

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.