Timeline of Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman's life and research, 1934–2024: attention, collaboration with Amos Tversky, prospect theory, well-being, and the study of error and variability in judgment.
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1934: Kahneman is born in Tel Aviv
Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv while his mother was visiting relatives in Mandatory Palestine. His parents lived in France, where he spent his early childhood before the Second World War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman1940 – 1944: Kahneman's family hides in occupied France
Daniel Kahneman's Jewish family moved and hid during the German occupation of France. His childhood experiences of persecution and encounters with contradictory human behavior later featured in his account of becoming interested in psychology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman1954: Kahneman graduates from the Hebrew University
Daniel Kahneman completed a degree in psychology and mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During subsequent military service, he worked on psychological assessment, gaining experience with the gap between confident judgments and their predictive accuracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman1961: Kahneman completes his doctorate at Berkeley
Daniel Kahneman earned a doctorate in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and returned to teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His early academic work concentrated on perception, attention, and the demands of mental effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman1969: Kahneman begins collaborating with Tversky
Daniel Kahneman invited Amos Tversky to speak at his seminar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Their discussions developed into a collaboration investigating intuitions about probability and the systematic ways those intuitions could depart from statistical reasoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky1973: Kahneman publishes "Attention and Effort"
Daniel Kahneman published "Attention and Effort," treating attention as a limited resource allocated among competing tasks. The book brought together experiments on mental workload and provided an account of performance beyond his later, better-known work on economic choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention1974: Kahneman and Tversky describe judgment heuristics
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky published an influential Science article on heuristics and biases. Their account linked representativeness, availability, and anchoring with recurring errors, using small experimental problems to question assumptions about intuitive statistical judgment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_(psychology)1979: Kahneman and Tversky introduce prospect theory
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky published a model of risky choice that evaluated gains and losses relative to a reference point. Their account combined sensitivity to framing, nonlinear decision weights, and a value function that treated losses differently from gains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory1992: Kahneman and Tversky extend prospect theory
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky published cumulative prospect theory. The revision applied probability weighting to cumulative probabilities, addressing limitations of the original formulation and extending its treatment of uncertain prospects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_prospect_theory1993: Kahneman joins Princeton
Daniel Kahneman joined Princeton University as a professor of psychology and public affairs. His research increasingly investigated experienced well-being and the differences between how people lived through events and how they remembered or evaluated them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman2002: Kahneman receives the economic sciences prize
Daniel Kahneman shared the economic sciences prize with Vernon Smith. The award recognized his integration of psychological research into economics, especially judgment and decision-making under uncertainty; he credited the collaboration with Amos Tversky, who had died in 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Memorial_Prize_laureates_in_Economic_Sciences2010: Kahneman and Deaton distinguish forms of well-being
Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton analyzed survey data separating life evaluation from daily emotional experience. They reported different relationships with income, including a plateau in one measure; the result was specific to the measures and data they studied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics2011: Kahneman publishes "Thinking, Fast and Slow"
Daniel Kahneman presented decades of research on judgment and choice in "Thinking, Fast and Slow." The book used fast and deliberative thinking as organizing concepts, while some of its examples from social psychology later became subjects of replication disputes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow2021: Kahneman and colleagues publish "Noise"
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein published "Noise," examining unwanted variation in judgments that should agree. The book distinguished systematic bias from inconsistency and discussed procedures intended to improve the reliability of organizational decisions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%3A_A_Flaw_in_Human_Judgment2023: Kahneman revisits income and emotional well-being
Daniel Kahneman collaborated with Matthew Killingsworth and Barbara Mellers to reconcile conflicting findings about income and happiness. Their joint analysis found that patterns differed across levels of emotional well-being, rejecting a single plateau as a description of everyone in the sample.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics2024: Kahneman dies at ninety
Daniel Kahneman died on March 27. His research left linked programs in experimental psychology and behavioral economics, while his later work on adversarial collaboration offered a method for researchers with conflicting findings to investigate their disagreements together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman