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2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Current Interest) [18] National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 [5] The New York Times Book Review, one of the best books of 2011 [19] Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 [20] One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year [21] One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the ...
According to the review aggregator Bookmarks, The Undoing Project was met largely by rave reviews, [2] with Glenn C. Altschuler arguing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that it "may well be his best book." [3] Writing in The New Yorker, law professor Cass Sunstein and economist Richard Thaler praised the book's ability to explain complex concepts ...
In the American Press, The Washington Post reviewed the book as "well-researched, convincing, and practical," and only criticized a lack of consistency in style: "some sentences and sections read like a psychology or statistics textbook, others like a scholarly article, and still others like the Harvard Business Review." [16] The New York Times ...
In a 2011 article, Kahneman recounted the story of his discovery of the illusion of validity. After completing an undergraduate psychology degree and spending a year as an infantry officer in the Israeli Army, he was assigned to the army's Psychology Branch, where he helped evaluate candidates for officer training using a test called the Leaderless Group Challenge.
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [2] The magazine's offices are located near Times Square in New York City.
Dr. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics, joins us to discuss his book Thinking, Fast and Slow. In this segment, Kahneman discusses how working with patients undergoing ...
Prospect theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. [1] The theory was cited in the decision to award Kahneman the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics .
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.