Thinking, Fast and Slow
Speaking of Life as a Story “He is desperately trying to protect the narrative of a life of integrity, which is endangered by th ...
Experienced Well-Being When I became interested in the study of well-being about fifteen years ago, I quickly found out that alm ...
earlier. In my initial enthusiasm for this approach, I was inclined to dismiss Helen’s remembering self as an error-prone witnes ...
during the entire waking day. Longer episodes counted more than short episodes in our summary measure of daily affect. Our quest ...
activities they dislike and do not suffer the tension and stress associated with work. The biggest surprise was the emotional ex ...
women, and improved socializing opportunities for the elderly may be relatively efficient ways to reduce the U-index of society— ...
more educated tend to report higher stress. On the other hand, ill health has a much stronger adverse effect on experienced well ...
was for colonoscopies: people’s evaluations of their lives and their actual experience may be related, but they are also differe ...
Thinking About Life Figure 16 is taken from an analysis by Andrew Clark, Ed Diener, and Yannis Georgellis of the German Socio-Ec ...
heuristics of judgment. Here we ask what happens in people’s minds when they are asked to evaluate their life. The questions “Ho ...
puzzle. Figure 16 can be read as a graph of the likelihood that people will think of their recent or forthcoming marriage when a ...
generally positive, but the picture is complicated by the fact that some people care much more about money than others do. A lar ...
that a concept of well-being that ignores how people feel as they live and focuses only on how they feel when they think about t ...
California, Ohio, and Michigan. From some of them we obtained a detailed report of their satisfaction with various aspects of th ...
focusing illusion arises because Californians actually spend little time attending to these aspects of their life. Moreover, lon ...
of thinking less and less about it. In that sense, most long-term circumstances of life, including paraplegia and marriage, are ...
particular, it makes us prone to exaggerate the effect of significant purchases or changed circumstances on our future well-bein ...
have a simple meaning and should not be used as if it does. Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were be ...
Conclusions I began this book by introducing two fictitious characters, spent some time discussing two species, and ended with t ...
decision making, because time does matter. The central fact of our existence is that time is the ultimate finite resource, but t ...
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