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Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman (born 1934)

Daniel Kahneman was a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on human judgment and decision-making. Along with Amos Tversky, he founded the field of behavioral economics by demonstrating that humans are systematically irrational in predictable ways.

Kahneman's framework of System 1 (fast, intuitive) and System 2 (slow, deliberate) thinking became the most widely used model for understanding human cognition. His catalog of cognitive biases — anchoring, loss aversion, the availability heuristic — revealed the hidden errors that shape every decision we make.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow
Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.
— Daniel Kahneman
from Thinking, Fast and Slow

Books by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

2011