Researchers have long known that money can make you happier -- though the effect wears off after you earn $75,000 a year, says Princeton University's Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman.
Pointing to a graphic of a spider's silk-spinning organ projected on a giant screen, scientist Cheryl Hayashi said, "That's the business end of a spider," drawing laughs from hundreds in the TED2010 conference audience. "Hey don't laugh, that's my life."
CNN at TED2010
updated: Mon Feb 15 2010 13:35:00
Preview our conversations with speakers from the TED conference in Long Beach, California.
We all make bad decisions sometimes. In some contexts, to a certain extent, psychologists know why.
A reporter who can see the California wildfires from his home asks why it's so hard for people to recognize the danger
It isn't often that a psychologist helps explain personal finance, but Daniel Kahneman isn't an ordinary psychologist. In 2002 he won a Nobel Prize in economics for his research into how people confront uncertainty.
times--no, make that 10--visited with a co-worker, gone back over my notes. Three hours and 45 minutes to go. ...
This article is due in four hours and, frankly, I'm beginning to panic. The research is finished. I just have to write now. So far, unfortunately, I've done everything but: checked my e-mail nine t...
Fortune: A MEDITATION ON RISKupdated: Mon Oct 03 2005 00:01:00
As the residents of shattered Gulf Coast towns like Biloxi, Miss., and Gretna, La., began returning home or crawling from the wreckage in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit, many found their way ...
If getting rich is supposed to make you feel good, why are so many investors so agitated so much of the time -- even when the market goes up?
Buy and hold. Diversify. Put your money in index funds. Pay attention to the one thing you can control--costs--and keep them as low as possible. Today that is pretty standard, if often unheeded, in...
When people ask me which investment thinker I've learned the most from, they expect names like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and John Bogle. But I always give the same answer: Daniel Kahneman.
Anybody who tackled financial economics in college surely recalls lots of deadly serious professors filling blackboards with algebraic gibberish that purported to explain precisely how financial ma...
If ever there was a likely candidate to load up on aggressive growth funds, it's Bobbi Bensman. This 33-year-old resident of Rifle, Colo. is one of America's premier female rock climbers. Bensman g...
Face it: no matter how smart we are, we all make dumb mistakes about money that cost us thousands of dollars every year -- often without being aware of it. The culprits: a series of mental blind sp...
IN THE PURSUIT of wealth, investors face many foes: recession, bad management, product liability suits, even unscrupulous brokers. But none of these is as formidable, or as damaging to long-term re...
© 2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|