Daniel Kahneman at a conference in Munich, Germany, Jan. 27, 2009. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Burda Media) ...

Daniel Kahneman at a conference in Munich, Germany, Jan. 27, 2009. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images for ... — Daniel Kahneman, ... where he offered the Israeli military crucial insights into how ...

Daniel Kahneman, who never took an economics course but who pioneered a psychologically based branch of that field that led to a Nobel in economic science in 2002, died on Wednesday. He was 90.

Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv on March 5, 1934, ... He fulfilled part of his military service requirement by devising character assessment tests for recruits. In 1961, ...