Book Titles

…many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

…when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.

The tendency to like (or dislike) everything about a person – including things you have not observed – is known as the halo effect.

The standard practice of open discussion gives too much weight to the opinions of those who speak early and assertively, causing others to line up behind them.

We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone’s intention.

The widespread misunderstanding of randomness sometimes has significant consequences.

…if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.