To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

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.

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.