Amos Tversky

Amos Tversky was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist whose work profoundly shaped our understanding of human decision-making. He was instrumental in uncovering systematic cognitive biases and revealing how individuals perceive and handle risk. His early research focused on the foundations of measurement, leading to a significant multi-volume treatise. In collaboration with Daniel Kahneman, Tversky explored the psychology of prediction and probability judgment, developing prospect theory, a seminal contribution to behavioral economics that explains irrational economic choices.