Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

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

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."