Amos Tversky
Also known as Amos Nathan Tversky, A. Tversky, A Tversky
Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
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- On the framing of multiple prospects
- On the evaluation of one-sided evidence
- Choice under conflict
- Conflict resolution
- Reference theory of choice and exchange
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5 total works indexed
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 39,633x
- Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
· 1974 · cited 23,519x
- The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
· 1981 · cited 11,774x
- Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty
· 1992 · cited 11,528x
- Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
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Amos Nathan Tversky (Hebrew: עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.
Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement. His early work with Daniel Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment; later they worked together to develop prospect theory, which aims to explain irrational human economic choices and is considered one of the seminal works of behavioral economics.
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1937 births1996 deaths20th-century American Jews20th-century American psychologists20th-century Israeli economists20th-century Israeli Jews20th-century statisticiansAcademic staff of the Hebrew University of JerusalemAmerican AtheistsAmerican cognitive psychologistsAPA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipients