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

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

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

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

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