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Daniel Kahneman

kah-NAY-mun (/kɑːnəmən/)
Cognitive Psychology

Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate in economic sciences, known for research on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.

Facts
Birth Date
1934-03-05 1
Birth Year
1934 1
Death Date
2024-03-27 1
Death Year
2024 1
Birthplace
Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) 1
Death Place
Nunningen, Switzerland 1
Nationality / Culture
Israeli-American 1
Defining Contribution
Popularized dual-process accounts of reasoning for a general audience through his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, distinguishing a fast, automatic System 1 from a slower, deliberate System 2. 2
Notable Work
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) 1
Connections

Associated With

Kahneman and Tversky gave anchoring its classic 1974 experimental demonstration.

Gave the effect its classic 1974 experimental demonstration with Tversky.

Kahneman and Tversky's substitution model describes attribute substitution as answering an easier question in place of a harder one.

Introduced the availability heuristic with Tversky in 1973.

Studied the base rate fallacy extensively with Amos Tversky as part of their heuristics-and-biases research program.

Demonstrated with Tversky in the 'Linda problem' as part of their heuristics-and-biases research.

Established the effect with Barbara Fredrickson in a 1993 hand-immersion study.

Kahneman, with Thaler and Knetsch, ran the classic mug-and-pen experiments demonstrating the endowment effect.

Introduced the exceptionality effect with Dale T. Miller in 1986 as part of norm theory.

The familiarity heuristic developed out of Tversky and Kahneman's earlier discovery of the availability heuristic.

Central to Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory work showing logically equivalent options are evaluated differently depending on how they are framed.

Described and named the effect with Amos Tversky in the 1970s, drawing on Kahneman's own experience as a military interviewer.

Documented the bias with Amos Tversky in a series of studies in the early 1970s, including the hospital-births example.

A core component of Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory: losses loom larger than equivalent gains.

Nudge Theory, Theories and Concepts

Richard Thaler developed nudge theory by applying the heuristics-and-biases findings of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky to policy design, crediting their work on cognitive biases as its behavioral-economics foundation.

Developed the underlying snapshot model of remembered utility with Barbara Fredrickson in the 1990s and demonstrated it in a 1993 study.

First described and named the planning fallacy with Amos Tversky in 1979.

Introduced with Tversky as one of the heuristics in their 1974 heuristics-and-biases program.

In Branch

Source Wikipedia: Daniel Kahneman

Studies Conducted

Theories and Concepts Developed

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Daniel Kahneman
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  • infobox
    Nunningen, Switzerland
  • Early life
    Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), on March 5, 1934
  • Introduction
    Daniel Kahneman (/kɑːnəmən/; Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן; March 5, 1934 - March 27, 2024)
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2. Wikipedia: Dual Process Theory
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Intuition (or system 1), similar to associative reasoning, was determined to be fast and automatic, usually with strong emotional bonds included in the reasoning process.
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