Before the pioneering work done by Kahneman and his research partner, Amos Tversky, who died in 1996, economists had assumed ...

We all make bad decisions sometimes. In some contexts, to a certain extent, psychologists know why. Much research on the ...

Kahneman’s partner, Barbara Tversky — the widow of Amos Tversky — confirmed his death to the Associated Press. Tversky, herself a Stanford University emerita professor of psychology ...

He was 90. Kahneman and his friend Amos Tversky, who died in 1996, upended traditional economic assumptions that people consistently act rationally and with their self-interest at heart.

“His work is really monumental in the history of thought.” Working with psychologist Amos Tversky, Kahneman isolated biases that distort decision-making. These include aversion to loss and how ...