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

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

To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

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

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.