“Many areas of the social sciences simply have not looked the same since he appeared on the scene,” former colleague of the late Professor Eldar Shafir said in a statement.
Information about the Nobel Prize winner's death confirmed by Princeton University on Wednesday. Kahneman had been a professor of psychology there since 1993.
Daniel Kahneman was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, where he also completed his military service. He started his professional life with… United Statesbecoming a valued specialist in several fields.
Daniel Kahneman is dead
Daniel Kahneman was the author of approximately 200 scientific publications economics, law and psychology. He cooperated with American, Canadian and Israeli universities.
He became famous for developing, together with Amos Tversky, the theory of perspective. Scientists have tried to undermine the functioning view of the rationality of choice. According to the theory, people adopt a reference point and then evaluate the results as gains or losses.
In 2002, Kahneman and Vernon Smith received awards for their work, receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics. Their contribution to research on decision-making under uncertainty was appreciated.
Daniel Kahneman. “Scientists are fooling themselves”
The family did not reveal the place or cause of Daniel Kahneman's death.
As he pointed out, scientists deceive themselves. They are unaware of their own biasand the problem also concerns medical research.
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