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Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist (1934–2024), Tversky's collaborator of two decades, and the author whose 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow brought the heuristics-and-biases program to public consciousness.
Daniel Kahneman was the co-founder, with Amos Tversky, of the heuristics-and-biases research program and the co-architect of prospect theory. Born in Tel Aviv in 1934, raised in Nazi-occupied France, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces' psychology unit before pursuing graduate study at Berkeley and an academic career that spanned Hebrew University, the University of British Columbia, Berkeley, and Princeton. His partnership with Tversky, beginning in Jerusalem in 1969, produced the intellectual foundations of behavioral economics and a body of work recognized with the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — an award Tversky could not share, having died in 1996. Kahneman continued publishing into his late eighties, including the 2021 collaboration with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, Noise, which extended the framework from bias to random variability. He died in 2024.
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Kahneman's intellectual style was the counterpoint to Tversky's. Where Tversky pursued mathematical rigor and logical precision, Kahneman pursued phenomenological sensitivity and psychological depth. The partnership was widely