Daniel Kahneman Quotes

“System 2 allocates attention to slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious mental activities that demand it, including complex computations.“system

“You have been invited to think of the two systems as agents within the mind, with their individual personalities, abilities, and limitations. I will often use sentences in which the systems are the subjects.”

“System 1: Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, unconscious. Examples (in order of complexity) of things system 1 can do: determine that an object is at a greater distance than another, localize the source of a specific sound, complete the phrase “war and ...”, display disgust when seeing a gruesome image.”

“The main thesis is that of a dichotomy between two modes of thought: “System 1” is fast, instinctive and emotional; “System 2″ is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.”

“As surely and quickly as you saw that the young woman’s hair is dark, you knew she is angry. Furthermore, what you saw extended into the future. You sensed that this woman is about to say some very unkind words, probably in a loud and strident voice.”

“Casting about for a useful topic of research, I found and article in Scientific American in which the psychologist Eckhard Hess described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul.”

“Psychologists have been intensely interested for several decades in the two modes of thinking evoked by the picture of the angry woman and by the multiplication problem, and have offered many labels for them.”

“System 1 operates automatically and quickly with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control.”

“When waiting for a relative at a busy train station, for example, you can set yourself at will to look for a white-haired woman or a bearded man, and thereby increase the likelihood of detecting your relative from a distance.”

“You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding. You are probably safe carrying on a conversation with a passenger while driving on an empty highway.”