Amos Tversky
Psychologist, Academic
1937 – 1996
Who was Amos Tversky?
Amos Nathan Tversky was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement. His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman worked together to develop prospect theory, which aims to explain irrational human economic choices and is considered one of the seminal works of behavioral economics. Six years after Tversky's death, Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for the work he did in collaboration with Amos Tversky. Kahneman told The New York Times in an interview soon after receiving the honor: "I feel it is a joint prize. We were twinned for more than a decade." Tversky also collaborated with Thomas Gilovich, Itamar Simonson, Paul Slovic and Richard Thaler in several key papers.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1937
Haifa - Nationality
- Israel
- Profession
- Education
- University of Michigan
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Employment
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Stanford University
- Died
- Jun 2, 1996
Stanford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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