When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk… If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they’ll get more extreme. Cass Sunstein Read Quote
In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don’t have to be a Jedi to manipulate people’s attention. Cass Sunstein Read Quote
Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That’s the deepest lesson of ‘Star Wars.’ Cass Sunstein Read Quote
The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It’s essentially a legal and technical enterprise. Cass Sunstein Read Quote
As an academic, a great deal of my time is spent writing, with very little in meetings. In government, the premium is placed on figuring things out through discussing them with other people. Cass Sunstein Read Quote
In ‘The Force Awakens,’ women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don’t have to work hard to do that – it’s not a statement, it’s the world. Cass Sunstein Read Quote
Having a constant productive anxiety doesn’t mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right. Cass Sunstein Read Quote