The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
Daniel KahnemanFacts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.
Daniel KahnemanPsychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
Daniel KahnemanEconomists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
Daniel Kahneman