Amos Tversky

Cognitive psychologist. With Kahneman, mapped the systematic ways human judgement departs from the rational ideal — the foundation of behavioural economics.

Works

• 1974

  Research paper

  Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

  The seminal Tversky and Kahneman paper introducing the representativeness, availability, and anchoring heuristics. Founded the heuristics-and-biases programme.