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

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

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

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

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.

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