Amos Tversky

Amos Nathan Tversky was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a student of cognitive science, a collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was coauthor of a threevolume treatise, Foundations of Measurement . His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment later they worked together to develop prospect theory, which aims to explain irrational human economic choices and is considered one of the seminal works of behavioral economics. Six years after Tverskys death, Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for the work he did in collaboration with Amos Tversky. Kahneman told The New York Times in an interview soon after receiving the honor I feel it is a joint prize. We were twinned for more than a decade. Tversky also collaborated with many leading researchers including Thomas Gilovi

Tversky was born in Haifa, British Palestine . He served with distinction in the Israel Defense Forces, rising to the rank of captain and being decorated for bravery. He received his undergraduate education at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel, and his doctorate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1964. He later taught at the Hebrew University, Israel before moving to Stanford University. In 1980 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1984 he was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, and in 1985 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Amos Tversky was married to Barbara Tversky, now a professor in the human development department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Tversky, corecipient with Daniel Kahneman, earned the 2003 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. He died of a metastatic melanoma.

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