Thinking, Fast and Slow

moral rule does not work reliably. It generates contradictory answers to the same problem, depending on how that problem is fram ...

first story will go home without seeing the show if she has lost tickets, and most believe that she will charge tickets for the ...

Suppose both drivers travel equal distances over a year. Who will save more gas by switching? You almost certainly share the wid ...

check a box to become a donor. That is all. The best single predictor of whether or not people will donate their organs is the d ...

“They will feel better about what happened if they manage to frame the outcome in terms of how much money they kept rather than ...

Part 5 ...

Two Selves ...

Two Selves The term utility has had two distinct meanings in its long history. Jeremy Bentham opened his Introduction to the Pri ...

experienced utility could be measured by the number of injections. It also suggested that, at least in some cases, experienced u ...

procedure). A total of 154 patients participated in the experiment; the shortest procedure lasted 4 minutes, the longest 69 minu ...

both patients, but the last rating before the end of the procedure was 7 for patient A and only 1 for patient B. The peak-end av ...

A comment I heard from a member of the audience after a lecture illustrates the difficulty of distinguishing memories from exper ...

The long episode lasted 90 seconds. Its first 60 seconds were identical to the short episode. The experimenter said nothing at a ...

options, which in turn determined their choice. The cold-hand experiment, like my old injections puzzle, revealed a discrepancy ...

Biology vs. Rationality The most useful idea in the injections puzzle that preoccupied me years ago was that the experienced uti ...

symphony with a screeching sound at the end—the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad.” “This is a bad case of d ...

Life as a Story Early in the days of my work on the measurement of experience, I saw Verdi’s opera La Traviata. Known for its go ...

pity for a man who died believing in his wife’s love for him, when we hear that she had a lover for many years and stayed with h ...

students initially thought that it represented the folly of the young people who participated in their experiments. However, the ...

Finally, they indicated whether or not they intended to repeat or not to repeat the vacation they had just had. Statistical anal ...