Daniel Kahneman sent an e-mail last week to a dozen social psychologists, spelling out what he sees as a way to restore the credibility of priming research. The research, which has found that small ...

Kahneman discusses the state of social priming research, and highlights the general skepticism fed by failed attempts to replicate key studies in the field. He warns that graduate students studying ...

Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky have challenged the notion that humans generally make rational and informed economic choices. They argue that we make choices based less on a carefully ...

If two people are presented with the same set of facts, they will often draw different conclusions. For example, judges often dole out different sentences for the same case, which can lead to an ...

He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel. By Robert D. Hershey Jr. Daniel Kahneman, who never took an ...

Kahneman is an Israeli-American who is well known for his work with psychologist Amos Tversky. He is particularly known for his theory showing that some people's judgments about uncertain events are ...

Daniel Kahneman, who never took an economics course but who pioneered a psychologically based branch of that field that led to a Nobel in economic science in 2002, died Wednesday. He was 90. His death ...