In 2002 the psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Honoured with the achievement, Kahneman’s extensive research in collaboration with the phycologist Amos Tversky challenges the assumption of human rationality & judgement in cases of uncertainty.
With a PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, Kahneman’s current primary area of research explores aspects of experienced utility. Holding multiple positions at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs, Kahneman is a Senior Scholar and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus. He also holds the senior position of the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and is a fellow at the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, from where he received his bachelor’s degree in psychology.
In addition to his Nobel Prize, Kahneman has been honoured with a number of prestigious awards including a Lifetime Contribution Award in 2007 from the American Psychological Association for his work. In 2013 Kahneman went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barak Obama and in 2018 he was named a Gold Medal Honoree by The National Institute of Social Sciences. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001, Kahneman has published a collection of revolutionary publications, including his book Thinking, Fast and Slow which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Current Interest in 2011.