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Daniel Kahneman
Showing how judgement and economic choices depart from ideal rationality.
Judgement under uncertainty · Prospect theory
- Born
- 5 March 1934
- Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
- Died
- 27 March 2024
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist who received the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Early life
Wartime childhood
Spent part of his childhood in Nazi-occupied France.
Psychology training
Studied in Jerusalem and completed a doctorate at Berkeley.
Career
- 1960s
Academic psychology
Taught and researched perception and judgement.
- 1970s
Tversky collaboration
Developed influential studies of bias and decision-making.
- 1990s onward
Princeton
Continued research on judgement, wellbeing and experience.
Contributions
Judgement under uncertainty
With Amos Tversky, described recurring shortcuts and biases.
Prospect theory
Modelled choices involving gains, losses and risk.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Presented decades of research for general readers.
Beyond research
Research partnership
His collaboration with Tversky became central to behavioural economics.
Later work
Co-authored Noise, examining unwanted variation in human judgements.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Nobel Prize: award and biography ↗Photo: nrkbeta. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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