MacArthur Award Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2003)
Military career
Allegiance
Israel
Service/branch
Israel Defense Forces
Rank
Seren (Captain)
Battles/wars
Suez Crisis
Six-Day War
Yom Kippur War
Scientific career
Fields
Cognitive psychology, Behavioral economics
Institutions
Hebrew University Stanford University
Doctoral students
Maya Bar-Hillel
Ruma Falk
Amos Nathan Tversky (Hebrew: עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key 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 co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement. His early work with Daniel 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 Tversky's death, Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work he did in collaboration with Amos Tversky.[1] While Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, Kahneman has commented that he feels "it is a joint prize. We were twinned for more than a decade."[2]
Tversky also collaborated with many leading researchers including Thomas Gilovich, Itamar Simonson, Paul Slovic and Richard Thaler. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Tversky as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with Edwin Boring, John Dewey, and Wilhelm Wundt.[3]
^Altman, Daniel (10 October 2002). "A Nobel That Bridges Economics and Psychology". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
^Goode, Erica (5 November 2002). "A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman; On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
^Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; et al. (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721.
Amos Nathan Tversky (Hebrew: עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the...
Tversky was married to fellow psychologist AmosTversky (1937–1996) from 1963 until his death in 1996. They had 3 children together. The Tverskys were...
Kahneman became known as the "grandfather of behavioral economics." With AmosTversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors...
The Tversky index, named after AmosTversky, is an asymmetric similarity measure on sets that compares a variant to a prototype. The Tversky index can...
rules governing judgment or decision-making) proposed by psychologists AmosTversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s as "the degree to which [an event]...
judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky in 1979. The theory was cited in the decision to award Kahneman the 2002...
comparable gain, as shown in Figure 1. Loss aversion was first proposed by AmosTversky and Daniel Kahneman as an important framework for prospect theory – an...
explores the close partnership of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky, whose work on heuristics in judgment and decision-making demonstrated...
decision-making was developed in the 1970s and the 1980s, by the psychologists AmosTversky and Daniel Kahneman, although the concept had been originally introduced...
yet sell stocks that have gained value." In 1979, Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky traced the cause of the disposition effect to the so-called "prospect...
1939), Hasidic rabbi and composer. AmosTversky (1937–1996), cognitive and mathematical psychologist Barbara Tversky, American cognitive psychologist This...
Gould The most often-cited example of this fallacy originated with AmosTversky and Daniel Kahneman. Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very...
behind reference class forecasting were developed by Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky. The theoretical work helped Kahneman win the Nobel Prize in Economics...
past. The planning fallacy was first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky in 1979. In 2003, Lovallo and Kahneman proposed an expanded definition...
theorist in behavioral economics who has collaborated with Daniel Kahneman, AmosTversky, and others in further defining that field. In 2018, he was elected a...
paradox and Ellsberg paradox). The prospect theory of Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky renewed the empirical study of economic behavior with less emphasis on...
smaller samples, but people may not expect this. In another example, AmosTversky and Daniel Kahneman asked subjects A certain town is served by two hospitals...
their long-term goals. The collaborative works of Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky expand upon Herbert A. Simon's ideas in the attempt to create a map of...
under risk and uncertainty which was introduced by AmosTversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1992 (Tversky, Kahneman, 1992). It is a further development and...
assessing anecdotal value in the context of framing; Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky suggest that choice models may be contingent on stories or anecdotes...
they ended. Evaluate the importance of each goal. Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky have researched how people make decisions and found a variety of rules...
simulation heuristic was first theorized by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky as a specialized adaptation of the availability heuristic to explain...
misunderstanding of chance streams is the gambler's fallacy. Daniel Kahneman and AmosTversky explained this kind of misprediction as being caused by the representativeness...
The Psychology of Risk (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 35. Tversky, Amos; Kahneman, Daniel (1974). "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and...
Psychology program at the University of Michigan. His students included AmosTversky, Robyn Dawes, and Baruch Fischhoff, all important researchers in Decision...
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