People often attribute a persons action to the person rather than the situation. This is fundamental attribution bias.
Happiness vs satisfaction
Happiness is social
Satisfaction is more based on how you view your life. What you have accomplished.
Trying to get to move someone from A to B, you can apply a greater driving force or remove a restraining force. If you think about each force as a spring, there is less tension at equilibrium when removing a restraining force.
We don’t reach our beliefs by clear thinking, we reach them through a process of recall, emotion, bias, and judgement
Delay intuitions — rapidly formed tuitions are rarely good. Delay by thinking about each dimension separately and independently
The best way to overcome cognitive bias is to think in a group where you can implement a system of evaluation
The less information you have, the more likely you are to be biased by the pieces of information available.
Negotiations aren’t about trying to convince the other party it’s about trying to understand the other party
Pre mortem: when you are close to making a decision pretend as though the decision ended up in disaster in 2 years. Write the history of this disaster
Have individuals write down decision before a group discussion. Makes them more prepared and protects from groupthink
Keep a decision journal so you can evaluate yourself objectively after the fact and parse our any systematic errors
Between subject: each participant only experiences one condition
Within subject: each participant experiences both conditions