Nothing in his early life suggested that Daniel Kahneman, who died last week at the age of 90, would eventually win a Nobel Prize in economics. To start, the 2002 Nobel laureate was trained in another ...

During my Ph.D. studies, I recall focusing on reconceptualising what we know of as critical thinking to include reflective judgment (not jumping to conclusions and taking your time in your ...

About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...

Kahneman and Tversky identified about 20 separate cognitive biases that fuel heuristics and distort decisions. Perhaps most pertinent to investor behavior was Kahneman and Tversky's landmark 1979 ...

Kahneman is an Israeli-American who is well known for his work with psychologist Amos Tversky. He is particularly known for his theory showing that some people's judgments about uncertain events are ...

Daniel Kahneman, who never took an economics course but who pioneered a psychologically based branch of that field that led to a Nobel in economic science in 2002, died Wednesday. He was 90. His death ...

Mark Alfano claims that the heuristics and biases literature supports inferential cognitive situationism, i.e., the view that most of our inferential beliefs are arrived at and retained by means of ...

If you’re an 80s person like me, heuristics might make you think of that British band that sang "Sweet Dreams are made of This." That’s Eurythmics, not heuristics! Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky ...

I want to pay tribute to the economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman by applying some of his ideas to South Africa today. I’m not sure this is going to work and I should say from the start that I ...