Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman (; Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L. Smith. Kahneman's published empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Kahneman became known as the "grandfather of behavioral economics."

With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases, and developed prospect theory. In 2011, Kahneman was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In the same year, his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, which summarizes much of his research, was published and became a best seller. In 2015, The Economist listed him as the seventh most influential economist in the world.

Kahneman was professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Kahneman was a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was married to cognitive psychologist and Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman, who died in 2018.

Awards: APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, William James Fellow Award, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Howard Crosby Warren Medal, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Clarivate Citation Laureates, Grawemeyer Awards, Honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Kampé de Fériet Award, honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Berkeley, Hebrew University Secondary School

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