Daniel Khaneman is the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. But who is Daniel Khaneman? Daniel Khaneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and also the author of this book. He had earned a Nobel Prize in 2002 for behavioral economics and together with Amos Tversky Khaneman managed to establish a cognitive basis for common human errors, which arise from heuristics and biases. He was born in Tel-Aviv in 1934 and spent his childhood in Paris, France, where his parents emigrated from Lithuania in 1920s. Khaneman received a bachelor degree of science degree with a major in psychology and minor in mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1954. He had also served in Israeli Defense Forces and while serving in the army, he was responsible for evaluation of candidates, which were being chosen for officer’s training school. It is important to note that Kahneman’s areas of expertise are cognitive psychology, judgment and decision-making and behavioral economics. Khaneman is married to also award-winning cognitive psychologist Anne Treisman and they live part-time in Berkley, California. In ‘‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’’, Daniel is trying of identify and to understand errors of decisions, judgment and choice as he is wants to provide rich and more accurate vocabulary in order to discuss those errors. While writing this book, the author worked with his colleague Amos Tversky. Thinking, Fast and Slow is definitely interesting literature, worth of examining and reading, because it talks about many interesting topics of modern, economic and behavioral psychology.
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