Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
Interpretation
Our understanding of religion is influenced by both cultural and biological factors.
This quote by Daniel Kahneman suggests that our inclination towards religion is not purely a matter of personal choice or belief but is also shaped by our cultural background and biological instincts. It highlights the complex interplay between the environment we grow up in and our inherent psychological makeup, leading to a natural receptiveness to religious ideas and practices.
In practice
In a discussion about the influence of cultural factors on belief systems.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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