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Daniel Kahneman

Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)

  • Fame60.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Israel rank#215
Source-basedStable
  • Fame60.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Israel rank#215
  • Wikipedia46.1K
Lived 1934–2024, aged 90Israel
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  • Wikipedia
    69 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Israel
    #215
    Academics
  • Era
    1934–2024
    Aged 90
  • Awards
    25
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-08-17

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics by proving we're all terrible at thinking straight. His experiments with Amos Tversky dismantled the assumption that humans make rational choices — and built behavioral economics on the rubble.

Biography

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Kahneman began mapping the systematic errors hardwired into human judgment, working with Tversky to identify the heuristics and biases that trip up even careful thinkers. The pair developed prospect theory, a new model for how people actually weigh risk and reward. That work earned him the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Vernon L. Smith, making him the rare psychologist to claim the honor. By then he was professor emeritus at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs and had cofounded TGG Group. In 2011 he published Thinking, Fast and Slow, distilling d…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman
said
You should inform your gut and then trust it.
— Discussion at Harvard - Dec 3, 2021
Daniel Kahneman
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The first advice is to slow down, and not follow your first impulses.
— Discussion at Harvard - Dec 3, 2021
Daniel Kahneman
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And there is something else, which is very important, I think.
— Lex Fridman podcast, 1:04:10. 14 January 2020.
Daniel Kahneman
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I placed too much faith in underpowered studies.
— 14 February 2017, quoted at RetractionWatch
Daniel Kahneman
said
No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.
— Michael Lewis. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).
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