Best of Series: A Remarkable Life, Fast and Slow || Daniel Kahneman

This episode is part of The Psychology Podcast's "Best of Series", where we highlight some of the most exciting, enthralling, and enlightening episodes from our archives.
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 from Barack Obama.
Website: kahneman.socialpsychology.org/
Twitter: @kahneman_daniel
Topics
00:58 Daniel’s childhood and upbringing
04:12 Living in Nazi-occupied France
12:36 Working in the Israeli army
22:56 Judgment & decision-making research
27:54 Adversarial collaboration
33:59 System 1 and System 2
43:40 The free will debate
47:12 Individual differences in System 1
50:28 Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST)
1:04:15 Daniel’s criticism of positive psychology
1:15:27 Application of the science of well-being
1:22:21 Wealth and happiness
1:26:37 Noise vs bias
1:34:48 What is decision hygiene?
1:38:03 How Daniel has grown over time as a person
1:40:59 Winning the Nobel Prize
1:44:37 What Daniel would study today
1:46:08 Daniel Kahneman’s legacy
1:48:31 Advice to young psychologists
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[@abhishekdanej]

Excellent discussion. Daniel is so in the moment. He doesn't cringe about anything unimportant or past or future. A fabulous and inspiring man of science.

[@archetypalmuse]

This was so cool!! I'm looking to study reasoning and, of course, my prospective supervisor had mentioned Kahneman & Tversky's model. Wild that I opened CZcams and there was an interview with Kahneman! I really appreciated the advice for future scientists as well.

[@isabelledebaumarche5473]

This discussion is full of deep expertise, of respect and of humility. A very instructive class for my uninitiated brain and simple regular listener of this podcast. I just wish to thank you for giving us the opportunity to strengthen our powers of reasoning.

[@AznDudeIsOn]

love his advice for future scientists

[@prayaanshmehta3200]

1:03:00 10 experiential vs remembering self
1:04:10 11 positive psychology
12 suffering 1:08:45