Psychologist of Judgment
Daniel Kahneman
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An Israeli-American psychologist who, with Amos Tversky, showed how people judge chances and risks by quick rules of thumb, and who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for that work.
Key work: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
“Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Fast thinking often answers an easier question than the one you were asked.
What comes to mind easily feels more likely than it is.
A loss hurts about twice as much as the same gain pleases.
Read more: Wikipedia
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