People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.