Daniel Kahneman Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Feelings, Intuition

• We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Powerful, Intuition

• You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Tired, Somewhere Else, People

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

• The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Dominance, Emotion, Argument

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.119, Macmillan

• What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Children, Fear, Thinking

• Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Reality, Different, Alternatives

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