The new literati of the genre include David Brooks, Jonathan Haidt, Dan Ariely, and Daniel Kahneman.
Kahneman and other scholars have documented how numbers can warp rather than enhance logical thinking.
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As Noble Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman proved, our decision-making is largely guided by emotions and intuition.
Starting in the 1970s, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky did groundbreaking studies suggesting otherwise.
Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his pioneering work in behavioral finance.
Research, including work by Nobel-laureate economist Daniel Kahneman, has shown that people prefer lottery tickets to low-risk investments.
Perhaps Thaler and Kahneman should have reminded the bankers about the NCAA tournament.
My colleague at Princeton, Danny Kahneman, who wasn't even an economist, won the Nobel Prize in economics for behavioral finance.
Last week I had the privilege of seeing Daniel Kahneman, professor of psychology at Princeton University, speak in New York.
First explained by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, it's surprisingly common.
In this respect, Mr Kahneman's Princeton colleagues and neuroscience-bashers may be making a mistake in bundling behavioural economics soft mind science and neuroeconomics hard biology together.
Kahneman and Tversky also showed that people tend to use general rules, such as representativeness, to make judgments that contradict the laws of probability.
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It's ironic that Kahneman singles Friedman out as an intellectual foil, for Friedman was practicing behavioral economics when Kahneman (born 1934) was but a child.
Kahneman explains that we rely too heavily on System 1, need to engage System 2, and we need to understand the impact of both on decision-making.
Amos Tversky and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman showed how humans consistently overweight the probability of outcomes they like and avoid losses to an irrational level.
Kahneman conducted his research with Amos Tversky, but Tversky was not eligible to receive the prize because he died in 1996 and the prize is not awarded posthumously.
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"He is a star of the field, one of the most productive people in his age group, " says Princeton University's Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics.
In an instantly famous study, published in Science in 2004, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman asked nine hundred working women to assess their experiences during the preceding day.
As the psychologist Daniel Kahneman points out in "Thinking Fast and Slow, " you'll reach a smarter conclusion if everyone expresses their views at the outset, before anyone has spoken.
The Nobel committee's decision, like earlier awards to Amartya Sen and Daniel Kahneman, is a welcome shot in the arm for research that crosses disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences.
However, Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton University psychologist who in 2002 won the Nobel prize in economics for his contribution to behavioural economics, is an enthusiastic supporter of the new field.
Kahneman, often working with a fellow academic, the late Amos Tversky, described many of the core concepts of behavioral finance, including: loss and regret aversion, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, and availability bias.
And Mr Kahneman cites studies that show how overoptimistic chief executives (as measured by the amount of stock they own) were more likely to gear up their balance-sheets and pay too much for acquisitions.
According to Nobel Prize Winner Danial Kahneman, I have experienced the Peak End Rule: We judge our past experiences almost entirely on how they were at their peak (pleasant or unpleasant) and how they ended.
Ziv Carmon, a professor of marketing at INSEAD, the international business school with campuses in Abu Dhabi, France and Singapore, co-conducted research with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, to determine people's feelings about a line's progression.
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 and authored last year's "Thinking Fast and Slow, " has explored how our conscious thought processes are susceptible to being disrupted by irrational, subconscious influences.
When Dick Thaler and Danny Kahneman (two of the founders of the field of behavioral economics) showed investment firms data confirming that their top earners were the recipients of good old fashioned luck, the bankers scoffed at their analyses.
In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman cites compelling research done in the lab of Dr. Kathleen Vohs at the University of Minnesota on the psychological effects of money on human behavior.
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