Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.