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

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

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.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

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

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.