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.

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

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.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.