Daniel Kahneman
- Daniel is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs. He won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky (1937-1996) on decision making. The prize was awarded for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgement and decision making. His ideas have had a profound impact on the fields of economics, medicine. and politics. He remains the only non-economist to win the Nobel in economics.
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Correction: December 18, 2011
A review on Nov. 27 about “Thinking, Fast and Slow” erroneously attributed a distinction to the book’s author, Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel in economic science in 2002. His being a psychologist was indeed unusual but did not make his award “unique in the history of the prize.” Another psychologist, Herbert A. Simon, won the award in 1978. (Simon, a polymath and interdisciplinarian, was also an economist, a political scientist and a sociologist.)
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