Kahneman and Tversky: A Shared Mind

Thinking, Fast and Slow

This flow follows the intellectual and emotional partnership that transformed private intuitions into landmark research.

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Seminar Encounter Seminar Encounter from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". The First Conversation A Guest Appearance Amos Tversky joins Daniel Kahneman's seminar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and immediately energizes the room.

Seminar Encounter from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". The First Conversation A Guest Appearance Amos Tversky joins Daniel Kahneman's seminar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and immediately energizes the room.

The First Conversation A Guest Appearance Amos Tversky joins Daniel Kahneman's seminar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and immediately energizes the room. Intellectual Attraction Their contrasting temperaments create curiosity rather than rivalry.

Café Rimon Planning Café Rimon Planning from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". A Research Partnership Shared Doubt At Café Rimon, the two scholars admit that even trained researchers misunderstand small samples.

Café Rimon Planning from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". A Research Partnership Shared Doubt At Café Rimon, the two scholars admit that even trained researchers misunderstand small samples.

A Research Partnership Shared Doubt At Café Rimon, the two scholars admit that even trained researchers misunderstand small samples. A Common Project They decide to test whether sophisticated colleagues share the same statistical intuitions.

Conversation as Experiment Conversation as Experiment from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". Joint Discovery Daily Questions The partners turn conversation into a sequence of miniature experiments, studying the first answer that comes to mind.

Conversation as Experiment from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". Joint Discovery Daily Questions The partners turn conversation into a sequence of miniature experiments, studying the first answer that comes to mind.

Joint Discovery Daily Questions The partners turn conversation into a sequence of miniature experiments, studying the first answer that comes to mind. Mutual Trust Their different intellectual styles make them more patient, playful, and inventive.

Landmark Publications Landmark Publications from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". From Intuition to Theory Heuristics and Biases Their research becomes a major account of systematic error.

Landmark Publications from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". From Intuition to Theory Heuristics and Biases Their research becomes a major account of systematic error.

From Intuition to Theory Heuristics and Biases Their research becomes a major account of systematic error. Prospect Theory A later collaboration explains risk preferences and establishes behavioral economics as a serious field.

Loss and Memory Loss and Memory from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". An Unshared Prize Separation The collaboration ends through geographical separation and then through Amos Tversky's death.

Loss and Memory from "Thinking, Fast and Slow". An Unshared Prize Separation The collaboration ends through geographical separation and then through Amos Tversky's death.

An Unshared Prize Separation The collaboration ends through geographical separation and then through Amos Tversky's death. Continuing Dialogue Kahneman preserves the partnership as the emotional and intellectual center of his career.

1969 in Jerusalem

The Friday after the seminar

During the first years of collaboration

The 1970s

After Amos Tversky's death in 1996