Daniel Kahneman died on March 27. This is confirmed by his stepdaughter Deborah Treisman The Washington Post. He lived to be 90 years old.
Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist with a particular focus on decision-making psychology, behavioral economics and happiness research.
Ever since the 1970s, he researched the cognitive basis of fallacies. In 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics together with Vernon L. Smith for their theory of decisions under uncertainty, which deviated from prevailing economic models on several points.
In 2011, he published the book “Thinking fast and slow”, which quickly became an international bestseller. The book was a brick in the face of anyone who likes to believe their gut feeling and has been compared to “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin.