1. Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist best known 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 together with Vernon L Smith.
In 2011, Daniel Kahneman was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers.
Daniel Kahneman was professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
Daniel Kahneman was a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company.
Daniel Kahneman was married to cognitive psychologist and Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman, who died in 2018.
Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, on March 5,1934 while his mother Rachel was visiting her family.
Daniel Kahneman's parents were Lithuanian Jews who had emigrated to France in the early 1920s.
Daniel Kahneman wrote of his experience in Nazi-occupied France, explaining in part why he entered the field of psychology:.
Daniel Kahneman was speaking to me with great emotion, in German.
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.
Daniel Kahneman was average in mathematics, but he thrived in psychology.
Daniel Kahneman was led to psychology when he discovered in his teens that he was more interested in why people believe in God than in whether God exists, and more interested in indignation than in ethics.
Daniel Kahneman then served in the psychology department of the IDF.
Daniel Kahneman developed a structured interview for combat recruits, which remained in use in the IDF for several decades.
Daniel Kahneman describes his military service as a "very important period" in his life.
Daniel Kahneman received a bachelor's degree in psychology and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1954 and a degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and went on to become a lecturer in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem later in 1961 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1966.
Daniel Kahneman developed rules of counterfactual thinking, and published "Norm Theory" with Dale Miller.
Daniel Kahneman was ultimately awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2002 "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty".
Daniel Kahneman left Hebrew University in 1978 to take a position at the University of British Columbia.
In 2021, Daniel Kahneman co-authored a book with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, titled Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.
From 1979 to 1986, Daniel Kahneman published multiple articles and chapters.
Daniel Kahneman published one chapter during the years 1987 to 1989.
Daniel Kahneman further distinguished the expected utility from both remembered and predicted utility.
Much later Daniel Kahneman described this distinction in terms of 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.
Daniel Kahneman initially believed that the happiness of the experiencing self is the true measure of well-being.
Daniel Kahneman participated in the formulation of the well-being module of the Gallup World Poll.
Daniel Kahneman then became a professor at the University of British Columbia, leaving in 1986.
Thereafter, Daniel Kahneman was a senior scholar and faculty member emeritus at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
Daniel Kahneman was a fellow at Hebrew University and a Gallup Senior Scientist.
Daniel Kahneman was first married to Irah Kahn, with whom he had two children, when they were students.
In 2015, Daniel Kahneman said he had always been "far on the left of the spectrum in Israeli politics" and that he had "hated the notion of occupation since the very beginning".
Daniel Kahneman died by assisted suicide on March 27,2024, three weeks after his 90th birthday, in Switzerland, though the manner and location of his death was only revealed in March 2025.
Behavioural economist Richard Thaler said Daniel Kahneman's work was "one of the most important accomplishments of 20th century science," and added, "It's hard to think of any psychologist whose work has influenced so many different fields".