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

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

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

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.