Abstract
Amos Tversky is best known for his pathbreaking work, along with Daniel Kahneman, on heuristics and biases in judgment under uncertainty, and for prospect theory, a theory of decision under uncertainty. His research showed that people are ‘irrational’, namely, their judgments and decisions deviate in systematic ways from normative dictates.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science |
| Subtitle of host publication | Nadel/Cognitive |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470018866 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470016190 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords
- heuristics and biases
- loss aversion
- prospect theory
- similarity
- support theory