Biography of Amos Tversky -

Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a
pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime
collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure
in the discovery of systematic human cognitive
bias and handling of risk.  With Kahneman, he
originated prospect theory to explain irrational
human economic choices. He received his doctorate
from the University of Michigan in 1965, and later
taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
before moving to Stanford University. In 1984 he
was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

Amos Tversky was married to Barbara Tversky,
presently a professor in the psychology department
at Stanford.

He also collaborated with Thomas Gilovich, Paul
Slovic and Richard Thaler in several key papers.

== Notable contributions ==

* anchoring and adjustment
* availability heuristic
* base rate fallacy
* conjunction fallacy
* framing
* behavioral finance
* clustering illusion
* homo economicus
* loss aversion
* prospect theory
* representativeness heuristic

== External links ==

*
http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/archive/1997_199
8/reports/105949/106013.pdf Stanford Faculty
Senate Memorial Resolution (PDF)
*
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/arch
ives/001025.html Boston Globe: The man who wasn't
there

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