The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

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.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.