Daniel Kahneman || A Remarkable Life, Fast and Slow
The Psychology Podcast
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Today it’s great to chat with Daniel Kahneman, one of the most influential psychologists of all time. Kahneman is known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is author of the bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow and co-author of the recent book Noise: A Flaw in Judgment. In 2013, Kahneman received the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.
Topics
[1:11] Daniel’s early childhood
[4:11] Daniel’s experiences in Nazi-occupied France [6:38] Daniel’s escape from Nazi-occupied France
[10:59] Daniel’s recollection of the birth of Israel
[14:39] How Daniel’s work in the army influenced his work
[20:50] Daniel’s work at UC Berkeley
[23:02] Daniel’s shift in focus from perception & attention to judgment & decision-making
[28:18] The importance of "adversarial collaboration"
[34:52] The development of Daniel’s ambitions in psychology
[37:23] The difference between System 1 and System 2 in psychology
[47:29] Daniel’s thoughts on the free will debate
[50:34] Daniel’s thoughts on individual differences in System 1
[53:54] Daniel’s thoughts on Seymour Epstein’s dual-process model
[57:15] Scott and Daniel discuss individual differences in System 1
[1:02:48] How Daniel moved into investigating hedonic psychology
[1:08:44] Daniel’s response to the current research on well-being
[1:16:00] Hope vs hopefulness as a psychological intervention
[1:19:55] The distinction between the science of well-being vs. the application of the science of well-being
[1:27:00] The link between wealth and happiness
[1:31:15] The difference between bias and noise
[1:36:38] The issue of noise across various disciplines
[1:31:39] What is decision hygiene?
[1:42:47] How Daniel has grown over time as a person
[1:45:38] Daniel’s reflections on winning the Nobel Prize
[1:48:09] What Daniel would study today and where he sees behavioral economics going
[1:50:46] What Daniel wants his greatest legacy to be
[1:53:12] Daniel’s advice to young psychologists
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| 0:00.0 | Today, it's great to chat with Daniel Cahneman, one of the most influential psychologists |
| 0:18.6 | of all time. Cahneman is known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, |
| 0:23.6 | as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize |
| 0:28.1 | in Economic Sciences. He's author of the best-selling book, Thinking Fast and Slow, and |
| 0:32.8 | co-author of the recent book, Noise of Fallen Judgment. In 2013, Cahneman received |
| 0:38.0 | the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. Daniel is so great to chat with you |
| 0:43.8 | today. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm so excited to chat with you. You are such a legend |
| 0:49.8 | in the field, as you know, and there's so much we could talk about, and I know we're |
| 0:54.8 | going to get into all the nerdy stuff. But I actually want to start with more of the |
| 0:58.9 | humanity of you, because I think your personal story and sort of where you're born and what |
| 1:04.1 | you live through is utterly fascinating and just like a one-of-a-kind kind of experience. |
| 1:11.5 | So you were born in Tel-Viv, but you spent most of your childhood in Paris when it was occupied |
| 1:18.4 | by Nazi Germany in 1940. Is that right? So you lived this time where even your father was picked |
| 1:29.3 | up in the first major round of French Jews, but he was released six weeks later due to the |
| 1:35.8 | intervention of his employer. Could you have that memory in your head of visiting that |
| 1:45.4 | concentration camp or visiting where he was imprisoned? Yeah, I have a very vivid memory, actually. |
| 1:50.5 | It was like a fortress, and of course we couldn't come close to it. There was a wall and there |
| 2:00.4 | were policemen, and there were lots of people hanging on all the windows and lots of women and |
| 2:08.6 | children. It was still, you know, the extermination hadn't started yet, so we was still there. And one |
| 2:17.2 | thing I do remember is a policeman telling us they're hungry in there, they're eating peels, |
| 2:25.5 | and that is an image I've kept. I've also kept the image of my father when he was released. |
| 2:35.0 | By the way, the story of his release is an interesting one because his employer was a fascist. In fact, |
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