Israeli - Psychologist | March 5, 1934 -
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.
Daniel Kahneman
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.
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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
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People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.
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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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