Amos Tversky

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Amos Tversky (born March 16, 1937 in Haifa , Palestine , today Israel ; † June 2, 1996 in Stanford , California ) was an Israeli pioneer of cognitive psychology and cognitive science .

Live and act

Amos Tversky was a son of the veterinarian Josef Tversky and the social politician Jenia Tversky .

In 1965 Tversky received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and then taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before moving to Stanford University . He was in charge of the psychological study of heuristics , the discovery of systematic human errors ( cognitive bias ) and the study of decisions under risk . Tversky died of metastatic malignant melanoma , according to Stanford University .

Together with Daniel Kahneman, Tversky developed the Prospect Theory to model human judgments in economic decisions more realistically than in the traditional cost-benefit model. While Kahneman and Tversky were initially considered rivals at the Hebrew University, that subsided in 1969. From then on, they often sat together in a seminar room, and laughter could often be heard through the closed door. Tversky's wife later said their relationship was more intense than marriage.

After Tversky's death, Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 2002 .

Awards and honors (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk with Kahneman in Econometrica , Volume 47, No. 2 (Mar., 1979), pp. 263-291.
  • Assessing Uncertainty in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society . Series B (Methodological), Vol. 36, No. 2 (1974), pp. 148-159.

literature

  • Russell J. Fuller: Amos Tversky, Behavioral Finance, and Nobel Prizes in Financial Analysts Journal , Volume 52, No. 4 (Jul./Aug. 1996), pp. 7-8.
  • Eva Feder Kittay: The Creation of Similarity: A Discussion of Metaphor in Light of Tversky's Theory of Similarity in PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , 1982, Volume one Contributed Papers (1982), pp. 394-405 .
  • Michael Lewis : From the world. Limits to choice or a friendship that has changed our thinking . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50686-9 .
  • Richard H. Thaler : The Psychology and Economics Conference Handbook: Comments on Simon, on Einhorn and Hogarth, and on Tversky and Kahneman in The Journal of Business , Volume 59, No. 4, Part 2: The Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory (Oct . 1986), pp. S279-S284.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Stanford University: Amos Tversky, leading decision researcher, dies at 59.Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Martin Chechne: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky - How two psychologists changed our thinking. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Lewis : How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Tversky, Amos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1996
Place of death Stanford (California)