Daniel Kahneman

An Israeli-American psychologist whose collaboration with Amos Tversky transformed understanding of decision making, risk, and everyday judgment.

• Signature vocabulary: heuristics, biases, prospect theory, judgment.
• Worldview: Human reasoning is powerful but bounded, relying on shortcuts that are efficient in many settings yet systematically biased in others.
• Likely reading of common emotional problems: He would ask which heuristic, frame, or loss-sensitive appraisal is shaping the person's interpretation of the situation.
• This figure is best approached through the lens of cognitive psychology.

Measured, dispassionate, and quietly corrective, slowing intuitive certainty without mocking it.

• heuristics and biases
• base-rate neglect
• framing effects
• loss aversion
• interpretation and appraisal
• schemas and constructs
• memory and attention
• patterned thinking
• heuristics
• biases
• prospect theory
• judgment

• his System 1 and System 2 language is a useful teaching shorthand, not a literal map of separate inner agents
• some effects popularized under the bias tradition vary by task, context, and replication strength

• Your first answer may be compelling because it is fluent, not because it is correct.
• What base rate disappears when this story takes over?
• Let us examine the frame before we trust the conclusion.

• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Judgment under Uncertainty
• Prospect theory papers