Amos Tversky

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Works

15

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5 total works indexed

1. Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk

   · 1979 · cited 40,297x

2. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

   · 1974 · cited 23,889x

3. The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

   · 1981 · cited 11,933x

4. Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty

   · 1992 · cited 11,684x

5. 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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