Amos Tversky Character Analysis

A psychologist and Kahneman’s primary collaborator. Kahneman and Tversky’s partnership began in the early 1970s at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, when Kahneman asked Tversky to lecture in one of his classes. Their discussion then led to their collaboration on many subjects, including intuition, forecasting, estimating, and assessing hypotheses. Their work culminated in the late 1970s in prospect theory, which addressed how human choices often deviate from the rules of rational economic theory. This collaboration led to the Nobel Prize Kahneman received in 2002, which Tversky would have shared had he not died in 1996 at age 59.