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Единственное подтверждение рациональности не в том, что взгляды и предпочтения человека разумны, а в том, что они внутренне непротиворечивы. Рациональный человек может верить в привидения, если все остальные его убеждения допускают существование привидений.

Evaluating people as attractive or not is a basic assessment. You do that automatically whether or not you want to, and it influences you.

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:…

Democracy is inevitably messy, in part because the availability and affect heuristics that guide citizens’ beliefs and attitudes are inevitably biased, even if they generally point in the right direction. Psychology should inform the design of risk policies that combine the experts’ knowledge with the public’s emotions…

He likes the project, so he thinks its costs are low and its benefits are high. Nice example of the affect heuristic.

The various causes of ease or strain have interchangeable effects. When you are in a state of cognitive ease, you are probably in a good mood, like what you see, believe what you hear, trust your intuitions, and feel that the current situation is comfortably familiar. You are also likely to be relatively casual and…

Психология точной интуиции не содержит никакой магии. Пожалуй, лучше всех ее кратко описал Герберт Саймон, который, исследуя процесс мышления гроссмейстеров, показал, что после тысяч часов занятий шахматисты иначе видят фигуры на доске. Саймон, раздраженный приписыванием сверхъестественных свойств интуиции экспертов,…

Приятная нашему сердцу вера в мировой порядок зиждется на твердой основе: нашей безграничной способности не замечать собственного невежества.

Cognitive illusions can be more stubborn than visual illusions.

Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence…

Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than…

A few years ago, John Brockman, who edits the online magazine Edge, asked a number of scientists to report their “favorite equation.” These were my offerings: success = talent + luck great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck