A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

You should not take your intuitions at face value.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.