by Paul Dolan
stammering (stuttering), xv–xx, 66, 69, 98, 191
Stroop, John Ridley, 55
Stroop task, 55–56
Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert), 114
Sudoku, 156
sunk costs, 134
Sunstein, Cass, 125
surgeons, 50–51
switching costs, 156
taking breaks, 122–23, 133, 148–49, 156
taller people, 41
television watching, 12–13, 27–29, 31–33, 111, 142–43, 148–49, 154
Thaler, Richard, 125
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman), x, 118
time, 15, 21, 159–60, 163
discretionary, 112–13, 154–55
perceptions of, 16–17, 149–50
pleasure-purpose principle over, 3, 15–18, 19
recalling duration of, 89–90, 171
trauma therapy, 120
truth, 78–79, 81, 92, 94
Tsuchiya, Aki, 85, 178
Twain, Mark, 181
uncertainties, 67, 105–6
UNICEF, 184
“unusual uses” tasks, 149
vampire bats, 182
Vlaev, Ivo, 14, 126
volunteering, 23–24, 27, 30–33
voting, 95
warm glow, 181
weather, 83
weight gain, 62–63, 69, 107
weight loss, 59, 106, 107, 109, 128, 132
weight training, 67–68, 138, 190
White, Mat, 26, 36
Wilkinson, Gerald, 182
Williams, Alan, 84, 177
wine shoppers, 53–54
wisdom of crowds, 136
work, 27–29, 31–33, 42, 62, 76–78, 82, 111, 134, 135
commute to, 27, 29, 31–33, 112, 113, 116–17, 148, 154
feedback from others on, 123
long hours and, 12, 40
quitting and, 91
skills at, 108
unemployment, 37, 40, 41–42, 64–65
worry tables, 162