Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli- American psychologist and emeritus professor, with the Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize In Economics 2002. The underlying excellent " Prospect Theory " he developed with Amos Tversky.

Life

Kahneman studied psychology and mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and psychology at the University of California. From 1961 to 1978 he taught at the Hebrew University and from 1978 to 1986 at the University of British Columbia; 1986 to 1994 he was professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Anne Treisman.

Since 1993, Kahneman held the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

He won the Hilgard Award for his contributions to general psychology as well as the Warren Medal of the Society for Experimental Psychology. Steven Pinker called Kahneman "the most important living psychologist ".

Especially his work on judgment heuristics and cognitive biases were known.

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Würzburg appointed Kahneman 2004 an honorary doctorate. In 2012 he was awarded by the Institute for World Economics at the University of Kiel Global Economy price.

In an interview Kahneman declared 2013 the opposition of his approach to the Chicago School and that it came down to it, to create an environment, " on the one hand guarantees personal freedom and on the other hand makes people to make decisions that they do not regret later ".

Writings

  • An analytical model of the semantic differential. University of California, Berkeley in 1961. (Dissertation)
  • With P. Slovic & A. Tversky (eds.): Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge University Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-521-28414-7.
  • With A. Tversky (Eds. ) Choices, Values ​​, and Frames. Cambridge University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-521-62749-4.
  • With E. Diener & N. Schwarz ( eds.): Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. Found Russell Sage, 2003, ISBN 0-87154-423-7.
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, ISBN 978-0-374-27563-1. Quick thinking, slow thinking. Settlers, 2012, ISBN 978-3-88680-886-1.
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