Emotions: Research Related to Happiness Expands
Happiness, or "subjective well being," includes such positive emotions as feelings of love, joy, and life satisfaction. Research reveals that factors like financial well being and success have a relatively small bearing on happiness in comparison to...
Probability and Stereotypes
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about intuitive responses, probability and stereotypes.
Mental Accounting
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about mental accounting, which bears some resemblance to framing. Dr. Kahneman explains that the way people manage money in certain instances is related to the how they interpret a pa...
Psychology of Single Questions, The
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about the development of what he calls "the psychology of single questions." This was the notion that, "...you can capture an idea; you don't have to construct complicated scales," Dr...
Shades of Gray
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about an early experience that shaped his view of humanity and fostered a lifelong awareness of the complexity of the human psyche.
Intuition and Perception
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about the similarities between intuition and perception. "Intuition is very much like perception," Dr. Kahneman says, "except that we can have intuitions about abstract ideas, about t...
Counterfactual Thinking
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about counterfactual thinking and counterfactual emotions. Dr. Kahneman explains that this field within psychology looks at the ways in which people bring to mind alternatives to real...
Framing
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about framing, which he describes as, "...the influence of formulation on preference." Dr. Kahneman provides an example of survey respondents asked to react to statistics indicating a...
Thinking and Language: Case of Wrongful Termination?, A
A shadow jury listens carefully to opposing attorneys characterize the events that led a quality control manager, Elena Gonzales, to file a lawsuit against her former employer. Is this a case of wrongful termination? What arguments will these mock j...
Thinking and Language: Factors That Affect Human Judgment
Most people are overconfident in their judgments. How an issue is formulated, or framed, can influence preferences. For example, 10% mortality and 90% survival mean the same thing, but do not have the same impact. An affective forecast is at the hea...