Frases de Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman es un psicólogo de nacionalidades estadounidense e israelí, nacido en Tel Aviv en 1934. En 2002, conjuntamente con Vernon Smith, le fue concedido el "Premio Nobel" de Economía por haber integrado aspectos de la investigación psicológica en la ciencia económica, especialmente en lo que respecta al juicio humano y la toma de decisiones bajo incertidumbre. Es llamativo que Kahneman ganara el Premio Nobel de Economía siendo psicólogo de profesión, aunque erróneamente en algunas fuentes se le cita como economista.

✵ 5. marzo 1934   •   Otros nombres دنیل کانمن, Даніэль Канеман
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Frases célebres de Daniel Kahneman

“Philip Tetlock observó que los expertos demasiado confiados eran los que más invitaciones recibían para figurar en los informativos. La confianza excesiva parece que también es endémica en la medicina. Un estudio sobre los pacientes que murieron en la UCI comparó resultados de autopsias con diagnósticos que los médicos habían hecho cuando los pacientes aún vivían. También los médicos acusaban un exceso de confianza. El resultado fue que «los médicos que creían estar "completamente seguros" de su diagnóstico ante mortem estaban equivocados en el 40 por ciento de los casos». También aquí el exceso de confianza de los expertos es alentado por sus clientes: «Que los médicos se muestren inseguros, por lo general, se interpreta como una manifestación de incapacidad y una señal de vulnerabilidad. La confianza tiene más valor que la incertidumbre, y existe una censura contra toda manifestación de incertidumbre hacia los pacientes». Los expertos que reconozcan la magnitud de su ignorancia ya pueden esperar que los sustituyan por competidores más confiados que ellos, que pronto se ganaran el crédito de sus clientes. La apreciación no sesgada de la incertidumbre es uno de los pilares de la racionalidad, pero no es esto lo que las personas y organizaciones quieren. En circunstancias peligrosas, la extrema incertidumbre es paralizante, y admitir que no hacemos sino meras estimaciones es particularmente inaceptable cuando es mucho lo que está en juego. Actuar sobre la base de unos supuestos conocimientos es a menudo la solución preferida.”

Fuente: Pensar rápido, pensar despacio.

Daniel Kahneman: Frases en inglés

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 19, "The illusion of understanding", page 201 (ISBN 9780141033570).

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

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 5, "Cognitive ease", page 62 (ISBN 9780141033570).

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Variante: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 38, "Thinking about life", page 402 (ISBN 9780141033570).

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

Fuente: Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“People who make a difference do not die alone. Something dies in everyone who was affected by them.”

About the death of his long-time collaborator Amos Tversky on 5 June 1996. Nobel Prize Autobiographical Information http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/kahneman-bio.html (2002).
Contexto: People who make a difference do not die alone. Something dies in everyone who was affected by them. Amos made a great deal of difference, and when he died, life was dimmed and diminished for many of us. There is less intelligence in the world. There is less wit. There are many questions that will never be answered with the same inimitable combination of depth and clarity. There are standards that will not be defended with the same mix of principle and good sense. Life has become poorer. There is a large Amos-shaped gap in the mosaic, and it will not be filled. It cannot be filled because Amos shaped his own place in the world, he shaped his life, and even his dying. And in shaping his life and his world, he changed the world and the life of many around him.

“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 3, "The lazy controller", page 46 (ISBN 9780141033570).

“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think" (2011)
Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Contexto: An experiment about your next vacation will allow you to observe your attitude to your experiencing self: At the end of the vacation, all pictures and videos will be destroyed. Furthermore, you will swallow a potion that will wipe out all your memories of the vacation. How would this affect your vacation plans? How much would you be willing to pay for it, relative to a normally memorable vacation? My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.Imagine a painful operation during which you will scream in pain and beg the surgeon to stop. However, you are promised an amnesia-inducing drug that will wipe out any memory of the episode. Here again, my observation is that most people are remarkably indifferent to the pains of their experiencing self. Some say they don’t care at all. Others share my feeling, which is that I feel pity for my suffering self but not more than I would feel for a stranger in pain.I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

“Familiarity breeds liking.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Moses illusion.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The mystery is how a conception that is vulnerable to such obvious counterexamples survived for so long. I can explain it only by a weakness of the scholarly mind that I have often observed in myself. I call it theory-induced blindness: Once you have accepted a theory, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws. As the psychologist Daniel Gilbert has observed, disbelieving is hard work.”

Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 2): Daniel Kahneman, bloomberg.com, 24 October 2011, 15 May 2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-25/bias-blindness-and-how-we-truly-think-part-2-daniel-kahneman.html,
"Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think" (2011)

“He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 23, "The outside view", page 254 (ISBN 9780141033570).

“Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.”

Daniel Kahneman libro Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fuente: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 38, "Thinking about life", pages 400-401 (ISBN 9780141033570).

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