21 Facts About Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Daniel Kahneman is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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Daniel Kahneman is a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company.

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Daniel Kahneman was married to cognitive psychologist and Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman, who died in 2018.

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Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, in 1934, where his mother, Rachel, was visiting relatives.

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Daniel Kahneman's parents were Lithuanian Jews who had emigrated to France in the early 1920s.

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Daniel Kahneman has written of his experience in Nazi-occupied France, explaining in part why he entered the field of psychology:.

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Daniel Kahneman was speaking to me with great emotion, in German.

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In 1954 Daniel Kahneman received his Bachelor of Science degree, with a major in psychology and a minor in mathematics, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Daniel Kahneman served in the psychology department of the Israeli Defense Forces, and as an infantryman.

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Daniel Kahneman describes his military service as a "very important period" in his life.

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Daniel Kahneman began his academic career as a lecturer in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1961.

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Daniel Kahneman was ultimately awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work on prospect theory.

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Daniel Kahneman wrote the paper at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

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Daniel Kahneman left Hebrew University in 1978 to take a position at the University of British Columbia.

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Factors included Tversky receiving most of the external credit for the output of the partnership, and a reduction in the generosity with which Tversky and Daniel Kahneman interacted with each other.

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In 1992 Varey and Daniel Kahneman introduced the method of evaluating moments and episodes as a way to capture "experiences extended across time".

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Daniel Kahneman explains this distortion in terms of the difference between two selves: the experiencing self, which is aware of pleasure and pain as they are happening, and the remembering self, which shows the aggregate pleasure and pain over an extended period of time.

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Daniel Kahneman is a senior scholar and faculty member emeritus at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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Daniel Kahneman is a fellow at Hebrew University and a Gallup Senior Scientist.

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Daniel Kahneman's son has schizophrenia, and his daughter works in technology.