Daniel Kahneman
IN MEMORIAM
Professor Daniel Kahneman died on March 27, 2024. Social Psychology Network is maintaining this profile for visitors who wish to learn about Professor Kahneman's work. Please see below for more information.
Obituaries:
- Daniel Kahneman, Pioneering Behavioral Psychologist, Nobel Laureate and "Giant in the Field," Dies at 90 (Princeton University)
- Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024 (Daniel Kahneman and Anne Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy)
- Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 (New York Times)
- Daniel Kahneman: Nobel Prize-Winning Behavioural Economist Dies (BBC)
- Daniel Kahneman, Renowned Psychologist and Nobel Prize Winner, Dies at 90 (The Guardian)
- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate Who Upended Economics, Dies at 90 (Washington Post)
- Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize Winner Who Wrote Thinking, Fast and Slow, Dies Aged 90 (CNN)
- Israeli American Economist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman Dies at 90 (Haaretz)
Other tributes:
- Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons (Behavioral Scientist)
- The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries (Cass Sunstein)
Daniel Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his pioneering work integrating insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty. Much of this work was carried out collaboratively with Amos Tversky.
In addition to the Nobel prize, Kahneman has been the recipient of many other awards, among them the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (1982) and the Grawemeyer Prize (2002), both jointly with Amos Tversky, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1995), the Hilgard Award for Career Contributions to General Psychology (1995), and the Lifetime Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (2007).
Professor Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv but spent his childhood years in Paris, France, before returning to Palestine in 1946. He received his bachelors degree in psychology (with a minor in mathematics) from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in 1954 he was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces, serving principally in its psychology branch. In 1958 he came to the United States and earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961.
During the past several years, the primary focus of Professor Kahneman's research has been the study of various aspects of experienced utility (that is, the utility of outcomes as people actually live them). For a more detailed biography, please see his Nobel autobiography or visit Dr. Kahneman's home page. For a complete list of Dr. Kahneman's publications, see his official CV.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Social Cognition
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The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory (TED talk)
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20:37 The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory (TED talk)
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1:02:27 Thinking, Fast and Slow (Talks at Google)
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6:36 Thinking Fast vs. Thinking Slow (Inc Magazine)
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2:57 The Trouble With Confidence
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3:57 Why We Make Bad Decisions (and What We Can Do About It)
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16:33 The Art and Science of Decision Making
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6:07 10 Questions for Daniel Kahneman (TIME Magazine)
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1:30:15 A Psychological Perspective on Rationality
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15:15 It's All in Your Head: How Do We Really Form Opinions?
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29:36 Fathoming the Human Mind (Forbes)
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1:17:38 Thinking Fast and Slow (Long Now Foundation)
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32:59 Behavioral Finance (Amundi World Investment Forum)
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52:47 2016 Wharton People Analytics Conference
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54:46 Thinking, Fast and Slow
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1:00:55 Daniel Kahneman in Conversation (Microsoft Research)
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Books:
- Diener, E. Helliwell, J. F., & Kahneman, D. (Eds.). (2010). International differences in well-being. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
- Gilovich, T., Griffin, D., & Kahneman, D. (Eds.). (2002). Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Kahneman, D. (1973). Attention and effort. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (1999). Well-being: Foundations of hedonic psychology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
- Kahneman, D., Sibony, O., & Sunstein, C. R. (2021). Noise: A flaw in human judgment. New Rok: Harper Collins.
- Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. (Eds.). (1982). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (Eds.). (2000). Choices, values, and frames. New York: Cambridge University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Journal Articles:
- Fredrickson, B. L., & Kahneman, D. (1993). Duration neglect in retrospective evaluations of affective episodes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 45-55.
- Jacowitz, K. E., & Kahneman D. (1995). Measures of anchoring in estimation tasks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 1161-1166.
- Kahneman, D. (2003). A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality. American Psychologist, 58(9), 697-720.
- Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decisions under risk. Econometrica, 47, 313-327.
- Kahneman, D., & Varey, C. A. (1990). Propensities and counterfactuals: The loser that almost won. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(6), 1101-1110.
- Frederick, S., Kahneman, D., & Mochon, D. (2010). Elaborating a simpler theory of anchoring. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 20(1), 17-19.
- Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Kahneman, D. (1998). Varieties of regret: A debate and partial resolution. Psychological Review, 105, 602-605.
- Kahneman, D., & Deaton, A. (2010). High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(38), 16489-16493.
- Miron-Shatz, T., Stone, A., & Kahneman, D. (2009). Memories of yesterday's emotions: Does the valence of experience affect the memory-experience gap? Emotion, 9(6), 885-891.
- Morewedge, C. K., & Kahneman, D. (2010). Associative processes in intuitive judgment. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 435-440.
- Kahneman, D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D. A. Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2004). A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The day reconstruction method. Science, 306, 1776-1780.
- Killingsworth, M. A., Kahneman, D., & Mellers, B. (2023). Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(10), e2208661120.
- McGraw, A. P., Larsen, J. T., Kahneman, D., & Schkade, D. (2010). Comparing gains and losses. Psychological Science, 21(10), 1438-1445.
- Schkade, D., & Kahneman, D. (1998). Does living in California make people happy? A focusing illusion in judgments of life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 9, 340-346.
- Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science, 211, 453-458.
- Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.
Other Publications:
- Diener, E., Kahneman, D., Tov, W., & Arora, R. (2010). Income's association with judgments of life versus feelings. In E. Diener, J. F. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (Eds.), International Differences in Well-Being (pp. 3-15). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
