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D-Index
142
Citations
485835
World Ranking
103
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States
  • 2011 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 2010 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute
  • 2007 - APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association.
  • 2004 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2002 - Nobel Prize for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty
  • 2002 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1982 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association

Overview

Daniel Kahneman was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research work spanned several subfields including General Decision Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of their work included Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Frequent coauthors during their career included Robert H. Frank, Justin Lin, Hans-Werner Sinn, Bruno S. Frey, and René L. Frey.

The venues in which Kahneman published most frequently were Kyklos, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Character Lab Playbook, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Significant recent papers included:

  • Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, 2024, Science
  • Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Judgment, 2021, Character Lab Playbook
  • Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • An exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence, 2022, Collective Intelligence

Kahneman also authored books, including Thinking & Reasoning published by Psychology Press eBooks in 2020.

The awards received over their career covered a broad timespan, reflecting recognition from multiple institutions. These awards included the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the United States in 2013, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2011, Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute in 2010, APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology in 2007, membership in the European Academy of Sciences in 2004, the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology in 2003, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Kahneman was also a laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2002 for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty. The Nobel Prize awarded in the same year cited the same integration of psychological research and economic science. Other distinctions included Fellows of the Econometric Society (1993), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (1989), and the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1982).

Best Publications

  • Prospect theory: analysis of decision under risk

    Daniel Kahneman;Amos Tversky

  • Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

    A. Tversky;D. Kahneman

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

  • Choices, Values, and Frames

    Daniel Kahneman;Amos Tversky

  • The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

    Amos Tversky;Daniel Kahneman

  • Attention and Effort

    Daniel Kahneman

  • Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability

    Amos Tversky;Daniel Kahneman

  • On the psychology of prediction

    Daniel Kahneman;Amos Tversky

  • Judgment under uncertainty: List of contributors

    Daniel Kahneman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

  • Judgment under uncertainty: Causality and attribution

    Daniel Kahneman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

  • Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model

    Amos Tversky;Daniel Kahneman

  • Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness

    Daniel Kahneman;Amos Tversky

  • A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality.

    Daniel Kahneman

  • Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics

    Daniel Kahneman

  • Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias

    Daniel Kahneman;Jack L. Knetsch;Richard H. Thaler

  • Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment.

    Amos Tversky;Daniel Kahneman

  • Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem

    Daniel Kahneman;Jack L. Knetsch;Richard H. Thaler

  • Rational choice and the framing of decisions

    A. Tversky;D. Kahneman

  • Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology

    Daniel Kahneman;Edward Diener;Norbert Schwarz

  • Representativeness revisited: Attribute substitution in intuitive judgment.

    Daniel Kahneman;Shane Frederick

  • Judgment under uncertainty: Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases

    Amos Tversky;Daniel Kahneman

Frequent Co-Authors

Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
Arthur A. Stone
Arthur A. Stone University of Southern California
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dale Griffin
Dale Griffin University of British Columbia
Thomas Gilovich
Thomas Gilovich Cornell University
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Dale T. Miller
Dale T. Miller Stanford University

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