The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

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.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

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.

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.