Tversky Amos (Department Of Psychology) - The Essential Tversky - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century. Amos Tversky (1937 1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious exciting and influential spanning topics from intuition to statistics to behavioral economics. His long and extraordinarily productive collaboration with his friend and colleague Daniel Kahneman was the subject of Michael Lewis's best - selling book The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds. The Essential Tversky offers a selection of Tversky's best most influential and accessible papers classics chosen to capture the essence of Tversky's thought. The impact of Tversky's work is far reaching and long - lasting. In 2002, Kahneman who drew on their joint work in his much - praised 2013 book Thinking Fast and Slow (and who contributes an afterword to this collection) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for work done with Tversky. In The Undoing Project Lewis (who contributes a foreword to this collection) describes his discovery that Tversky and Kahneman's thinking laid the foundation for Moneyball his own ode to number - crunching. The papers collected in The Essential Tversky cover topics that include cognitive and perceptual bias misguided beliefs inconsistent preferences risky choice and loss aversion decisions and psychological common sense. Together they offer nonspecialist readers an introduction to one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century.
Title: The Essential Tversky
Author(s): Tversky Amos (Department Of Psychology), Shafir, Eldar (William Stewart Tod Professor Of Psychology And Public Affairs, Princeton University)
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262535106
Pages: 400 Pages, 47 B&W Illus.
Publication Date: 7/17/2018
Series: The Essential Tversky
Category: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy