Associated psychologist links a phenomenon to the researcher most closely connected with identifying or naming it. Wikipedia notes that, with Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman "established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases," work that named many of the phenomena studied today. This grouping traces a phenomenon back to the person whose work first described it.
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Taxonomy AuthorityTversky and Kahneman heuristics-and-biases research program 1 Associated Psychologist
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1. Wikipedia: Heuristics in Judgment and Decision-Making
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This research, called the heuristics-and-biases program, challenged the idea that human beings are rational actors and first gained worldwide attention in 1974 with the Science paper "Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases".
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