Daniel Kahneman

1934–2024

Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist associated with Princeton University. His work with Amos Tversky helped explain systematic patterns in judgment and decision-making; he received the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and brought this research to a broad readership in Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth”

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“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story”

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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it”

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