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... PhD in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley. Since 1993, he has been the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
He shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics with Vernon L. Smith (George Mason University, USA).
Dr. Kahneman was recognized for having "... integrated insights from psychology into economics, thereby laying the foundation for a new field of research. Kahneman's main findings concern decision-making under uncertainty, where he has demonstrated how human decisions may systematically depart from those predicted by standard economic theory. Together with Amos Tversky (deceased in 1996), he has formulated prospect theory as an alternative, that better accounts for observed behavior. Kahneman has also discovered how human judgment may take heuristic shortcuts that systematically depart from basic principles of probability. His work has inspired a new generation of researchers in economics and finance to enrich economic theory using insights from cognitive psychology into intrinsic human motivation."
Awards and Distinctions
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2002
Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology (joint with Amos Tversky), 2002
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2002
Honorary degrees: University of Pennsylvania, University of Trento, Ben-Gurion University, New York University.
George Miller Distinguished Lectureship, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2002
William James Fellow, American Psychological Society
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Econometric Society
Member, Society of Experimental Psychologists
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association
Katz-Newcomb Lecture in Social Psychology, 1979
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Society, 1982
Fitts Lectures, University of Michigan, 1987
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society of Consumer Psychology, 1992
Tanner Lecture on Human Values, University of Michigan, 1994
Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, 1995
Bartlett Lecture, Experimental Psychology Society (UK), 1995
Hilgard Award for Lifetime Contribution to General Psychology, 1995
Honorary Doctor of Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Career Achievement Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2002
Doctor Honoris Causa, Univeristy of Trento, 2002
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- Decision-making under uncertainty
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