Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

“wantability”: Irving Fisher, “Is ‘Utility’ the Most Suitable Term for the Concept It Is Used to
Denote?” American Economic Review 8 (1918): 335.
at any moment: Francis Edgeworth, Mathematical Psychics (New York: Kelley, 1881).
under which his theory holds: Daniel Kahneman, Peter P. Wakker, and Rakesh Sarin, “Back to
Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 112 (1997):
375–405. Daniel Kahneman, “Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based
Approach” and “Evaluation by Moments: Past and Future,” in Kahneman and Tversky,
Choices, Values, and Frames, 673–92, 693–708.
a physician and researcher: Donald A. Redelmeier and Daniel Kahneman, “Patients’
Memories of Painful Medical Treatments: Real-time and Retrospective Evaluations of Two
Minimally Invasive Procedures,” Pain 66 (1996): 3–8.
free to choose: Daniel Kahneman, Barbara L. Frederickson, Charles A. Schreiber, and Donald
A. Redelmeier, “When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End,” Psychological
Science 4 (1993): 401–405.
duration of the shock: Orval H. Mowrer and L. N. Solomon, “Contiguity vs. Drive-Reduction
in Conditioned Fear: The Proximity and Abruptness of Drive Reduction,” American Journal of
Psychology 67 (1954): 15–25.
burst of stimulation: Peter Shizgal, “On the Neural Computation of Utility: Implications from
Studies of Brain Stimulation Reward,” in Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic
Psychology, ed. Daniel Kahneman, Edward Diener, and Norbert Schwarz (New York: Russell
Sage Foundation, 1999), 500–24.
36: Life as a Story
had a lover: Paul Rozin and Jennifer Stellar, “Posthumous Events Affect Rated Quality and
Happiness of Lives,” Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009): 273–79.
entire lives as well as brief episodes: Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, and Shigehiro Oishi, “End
Effects of Rated Life Quality: The James Dean Effect,” Psychological Science 12 (2001): 124–
28. The same series of experiments also tested for the peak-end rule in an unhappy life and
found similar results: Jen was not judged twice as unhappy if she lived miserably for 60 years
rather than 30, but { thk-e she was regarded as considerably happier if 5 mildly miserable years
were added just before her death.
37: Experienced Well-Being