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 human development department at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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