His stepdaughter, Deborah Treisman, confirms that The Washington Post.
Kahneman became world famous in the 1970s, when he published a series of experimental studies with Amos Tversky on how people evaluate probability in everyday life, according to Large Norwegian encyclopedia.
He also helped develop a theory of decisions under uncertainty, which deviates from prevailing economic models on several points. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Vernon L. Smith, for these works.
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Kahneman is also known for the best-selling book “Thinking, fast and slow” from 2011. It was published in Norwegian in 2012 with the title “Thinking, fast and slow”. In the book, Kahneman explains how people think in one of two systems – either fast, intuitive and emotion-driven, or slow, rational and logical.
– Daniel Kahneman is the world‘s most influential living psychologist, said Harvard professor Steven Pinker The Guardian i 2014.
– His work is truly monumental in the history of thought.