Hindsight Bias Makes Surprises Vanish.

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.

Mood Evidently Affects The Operation Of System 1: When We Are Uncomfortable And Unhappy, We Lose Touch With Our Intuition. These Findings Add To The Growing Evidence That Good Mood, Intuition, Creativity, Gullibility, And Increased Reliance On System 1 Form A Cluster. At The Other Pole, Sadness, Vigilance, Suspicion, An Analytic Approach, And Increased Effort Also Go Together. A Happy Mood Loosens The Control Of System 2 Over Performance: When In A Good Mood, People Become More Intuitive And More Creative But Also Less Vigilant And More Prone To Logical Errors.

Survival Prospects Are Poor For An Animal That Is Not Suspicious Of Novelty.

Below An Income Of ... $60,000 A Year, People Are Unhappy, And They Get Progressively Unhappier The Poorer They Get. Above That, We Get An Absolutely Flat Line. ... Money Does Not Buy You Experiential Happiness, But Lack Of Money Certainly Buys You Misery.

Nothing In Life Is Quite As Important As You Think It Is While You're Thinking About It.