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Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Laureate Psychologist, Father of Behavioral Economics
- Psychology of judgment and decision-making
- Behavioral economics
- Cognitive biases and heuristics
- Prospect theory and decision-making under uncertainty
- Dual-process thinking (System 1 and System 2)
- Attention and cognitive effort
About Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman - Biography
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist renowned for pioneering behavioral economics through his work on cognitive biases, heuristics, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv in 1934 to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. His early childhood was spent in Paris amid the Holocaust, which sparked his lifelong interest in judgment and decision-making. Kahneman earned a B.A. in psychology and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1954. He completed his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961. His collaboration with Amos Tversky led to the development of the 'heuristics and biases' program and prospect theory, which earned him the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Kahneman authored influential books, including 'Thinking, Fast and Slow', and received numerous honors before his death in 2024.
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- Making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty or risk
- Overcoming cognitive biases like overreliance on intuition
- Improving personal or professional judgment by engaging slow, deliberate thinking
- Addressing loss aversion or framing effects in financial choices
- Tackling the planning fallacy when setting unrealistic timelines
- Reducing noise and variability in evaluations
- Designing policies or nudges to guide better public behavior
- Countering optimism bias or peak-end rule in assessing experiences
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