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19 Dec 2018 Conversations with Tyler Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
“I think there’s no question that there are cultural differences. For one thing, for example, there are major cultural differences in the attitude to optimists, to optimism.”
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- Daniel Kahneman
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- 19 Dec 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But being an Israeli . . . and surely you’ve traveled to many, many countries, at the very least Sweden, among others. There are papers on cross-cultural differences in bargaining or in decision biases. How much stock do you put in those results? I think there’s no question that there are cultural differences. For one thing, for example, there are major cultural differences in the attitude to optimists, to optimism. In quite a few European countries, optimism is considered rather foolish. It’s for children. Idiots smile in Russia, right?…
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