Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Cognitive psychologist who co-founded the study of heuristics and biases
1937, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine — 1996, Stanford, California, United States
Israel · United States
Amos Tversky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Cognitive psychologist who co-founded the study of heuristics and biases
Amos Tversky was a cognitive psychologist who, with Daniel Kahneman, founded the study of heuristics and biases and co-developed prospect theory, transforming economics and decision science. Kahneman's Nobel Prize in Economics (2002) explicitly honored their joint work, which the committee noted would have been shared had Tversky lived. He was an Israeli Jew, born in Haifa.
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Cognitive psychologist who co-founded the study of heuristics and biases
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