Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic cognitive bias and how people handle risk. Died in 1996.
Stanford University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University
Stanford
Prospect theory replaced expected utility with a model in which people judge outcomes as gains and losses against a reference point and weight probabilities non-linearly, which is the origin of loss aversion and of most later work on investor behaviour. Choices, Values, and Frames collects those papers together with the framing experiments showing that how a choice is presented changes which option people take.
2 books of their own
Papers on how people choose under risk, from prospect theory to framing.
Choices, Values, and Frames | Papers on how people choose under risk, from prospect theory to framing. | 2000 | T1 | – |
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases | Edited volume | 1982 | T4 | Adam Robinson |
| The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think Paywall | The New Yorker | 2016 |
| Amos Tversky, Expert on Decision Making, Is Dead at 59 Paywall | The New York Times | 1996 |