Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

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.

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

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

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

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