Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.