People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

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

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

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