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He believed so too. Daniel Kahneman was the world’s greatest scholar of how people get things wrong. And he was a great observer of his own mistakes.
The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland ...
Joan Temko Anyon San Francisco To the Editor: Daniel Kahneman’s decision to end his life through assisted suicide in Switzerland raises troubling questions about the normalization of such practices.
One of the founders of behavioral economics, who incorporated human quirks into the study of how people make economic decisions, has died. Daniel Kahneman was 90.
A debate from Plato to modern neuroscience: how do emotions and reason interact? New theories from neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa challenge conventional wisdom.
Daniel Kahneman’s enlightening work challenged longstanding assumptions about human rationality and altered the very foundations upon which traditional economic models were built ...
Nothing in his early life suggested that Daniel Kahneman, who died last week at the age of 90, would eventually win a Nobel Prize in economics. To start, the 2002 Nobel laureate was trained in ...
Professor Kahneman, who died last week at the age of 90, is best known for his pathbreaking explorations of human judgment and decision making and of how people deviate from perfect rationality.
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the age of 90. Kahneman and ...
The work of recently passed Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman helps illuminate how emotions can interfere with rational decisionmaking.
Daniel Kahneman, who died on March 27th, populated his best-known work with characters and conundrums. Early readers encountered a schoolchild with an IQ of 150 in a city where the average was 100.
Daniel Kahneman, the Princeton University psychology professor whose work laid the foundations for the field of behavioral economics, died on Wednesday. He was 90.