Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

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 concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions