| 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.
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