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

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.