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

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.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.