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Amos Tversky
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Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
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Amos Tversky was an Israeli psychologist, economist, university teacher, and author born on 16 March 1937 in Haifa. He was educated at the University of Michigan and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was employed at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Harvard University. His field of work spanned psychology and economics, and his notable work is prospect theory.
Tversky was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, was part of the MacArthur Fellows Program, received a Grawemeyer Award, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died of melanoma, of natural causes, in Stanford on 2 June 1996.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- On the framing of multiple prospects
- On the evaluation of one-sided evidence
- Choice under conflict
- Conflict resolution
- Reference theory of choice and exchange
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 40,297x
- Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
· 1974 · cited 23,889x
- The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
· 1981 · cited 11,933x
- Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty
· 1992 · cited 11,684x
- Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
· 1973 · cited 6,599x
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Quotes
- “It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”
- “Let us take what the terrain gives.”
- ““It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”
- “He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
- “Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Amos Nathan Tversky , ( 1937-03-16 ) March 16, 1937, Haifa , British Mandate of Palestine
- Died
- June 2, 1996 (1996-06-02) (aged 59), Stanford, California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Israeli
- Alma mater
- University of Michigan , Hebrew University
- Known for
- Prospect theory , Heuristics and biases
- Spouse
- Barbara Tversky ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 )
- Awards
- MacArthur Award , Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2003)
- Allegiance
- Israel
- Branch
- Israel Defense Forces
- Rank
- Seren (Captain)
- Conflicts
- Suez Crisis Six-Day War Yom Kippur War
- Fields
- Cognitive psychology , Behavioral economics
- Institutions
- Hebrew University , Stanford University
- Doctoral students
- Maya Bar-Hillel Ruma Falk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nathan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Haifa
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Mother
- Jenia Taversky
- Occupation
- author
- Educated at
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- prospect theory
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- economics
- Work location
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- date of birth
- 1937-03-16
- date of death
- 1996-06-02
- cause of death
- melanoma
- member of
- Econometric Society
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- עמוס טברסקי
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- WikiProject Mathematics
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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