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

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.