Daniel Kahneman

Summary

Daniel Kahneman (/ˈkɑːnəmən/; Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist notable for his work on hedonic psychology, psychology of judgment and decision-making. He is also known for his work in behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.

Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman in 2009
Born (1934-03-05) March 5, 1934 (age 90)[1]
NationalityAmerican, Israeli
EducationHebrew University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Known for
Spouses
PartnerBarbara Tversky
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAn analytical model of the semantic differential (1961)
Doctoral advisorSusan M. Ervin-Tripp
Notable students
Websitescholar.princeton.edu/kahneman/

With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases, and developed prospect theory.

In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers.[2] In the same year his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, which summarizes much of his research, was published and became a best seller.[3] In 2015, The Economist listed him as the seventh most influential economist in the world.[4]

He is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Kahneman is a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was married to cognitive psychologist and Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman, who died in 2018.[5]

Early life edit

Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, in 1934, where his mother, Rachel, was visiting relatives. His parents were Lithuanian Jews who had emigrated to France in the early 1920s. He spent his childhood years in Paris. Kahneman and his family were in Paris when it was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. His father, Efrayim, was picked up in the first major round-up of French Jews, but he was released after six weeks due to the intervention of his employer, La Cagoule backer Eugène Schueller.[6]: 52  The family was on the run for the remainder of the war, and survived, except for the death of Kahneman's father due to diabetes in 1944. Kahneman and his family then moved to British Mandatory Palestine in 1948, just before the creation of the state of Israel.[5]

Kahneman has written of his experience in Nazi-occupied France, explaining in part why he entered the field of psychology:

It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others – the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me. I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting.

— [5]

Education and early career edit

In 1954 Kahneman received his Bachelor of Science degree, with a major in psychology and a minor in mathematics, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Israeli intellectual Yeshayahu Leibowitz, whom Kahneman describes as influential in his intellectual development, was Kahneman's chemistry teacher at Beit-Hakerem High School, and Kahneman's physiology professor at university.[7] Kahneman was average in mathematics, but he thrived in psychology.[8] Kahneman was led to psychology when he discovered in his teens that he was more interested in why people believe in God than in whether God exists, and more interested in indignation than in ethics.[8]

In 1954 he began his military service as a second lieutenant, serving for a year in infantry.[8] He then served in the psychology department of the Israeli Defense Forces. He developed a structured interview for combat recruits, which remained in use in the IDF for several decades. Kahneman describes his military service as a "very important period" in his life.[7][9]

In 1958 he went to the United States to study for his PhD in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1961 dissertation, advised by Susan Ervin, examined relations between adjectives in the semantic differential and allowed him to "engage in two of [his] favorite pursuits: the analysis of complex correlational structures and FORTRAN programming."[5]

Academic career edit

Cognitive psychology edit

Kahneman began his academic career as a lecturer in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1961.[5] He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1966. His early work focused on visual perception and attention.[10] From 1965 to 1966, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Michigan, and at the Applied Psychology Research Unit in Cambridge, during the summers of 1968 and 1969. He was a fellow at the Center for Cognitive Studies, and a lecturer in cognitive psychology at Harvard University in 1966 to 1967. His work on attention led to a book, Attention and Effort, in which he presented a theory of effort based on studies of pupillary changes during mental tasks.[11] Kahneman also developed rules of counterfactual thinking, and published "Norm Theory" with Dale Miller.[12]

Judgment and decision-making edit

Kahneman's lengthy collaboration with Amos Tversky began in 1969, after Tversky gave a guest lecture at one of Kahneman's seminars at Hebrew University.[5] Their first jointly written paper, "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers," was published in 1971. They published seven journal articles in the years 1971 to 1979. They flipped a coin to determine whose name would appear first on their initial paper and alternated thereafter.[13] Their article "Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" introduced the notion of anchoring. Kahneman and Tversky spent an entire year at an office in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, writing this paper. They spent more than three years revising an early version of prospect theory that was completed in early 1975. The final version was published in 1979.[7] The pair also teamed with Paul Slovic to edit a compilation entitled "Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" (1982) that was a summary of their work and of other recent advances that had influenced their thinking. Kahneman was ultimately awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2002 "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty,".[14] Kahneman left Hebrew University in 1978 to take a position at the University of British Columbia.[5] In 2021, Kahneman co-authored a book with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, titled Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.

Behavioral economics edit

Kahneman and Tversky both spent the academic year 1977 to 1978 at Stanford, one at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the other at Stanford University.[15] Richard Thaler was a visiting professor at the Stanford branch of the National Bureau of Economic Research during that same year.[15] According to Kahneman, "[Thaler and I] soon became friends, and have ever since had a considerable influence on each other's thinking."[5] Building in part on prospect theory and Kahneman and Tversky's body of work, Thaler published "Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice" in 1980, a paper which Kahneman has called "the founding text of behavioral economics."[5] Richard Thaler obtained a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to spend the academic year 1984 to 1985 with Kahneman at the University of British Columbia.[16]  Together with Kahneman’s friend Jack Knetsch they worked on two papers on fairness and on the endowment effect.[17]

Kahneman and Tversky moved to different cities, reducing the intensity and exclusivity of their earlier period of joint collaboration.[8] According to Kahneman the collaboration 'tapered off' in the early 1980s, although they tried to revive it.[18] Factors included Tversky receiving most of the external credit for the output of the partnership, and a reduction in the generosity with which Tversky and Kahneman interacted with each other.[19] They would continue to publish together until the end of Tversky's life, but the period when Kahneman published almost exclusively with Tversky ended in 1983, when he published two papers with Anne Treisman, his wife since 1978.

From 1979 to 1986, he published multiple articles and chapters.[20] Kahneman published one chapter during the years 1987 to 1989.[20][21] A few papers on decision making appeared after that hiatus, notably cumulative prospect theory, and an explanation of risk-taking by unrealistic "bold forecasts", but the focus of Kahneman’s research from that time was the study of subjective experience.[22][23]

Variants of utility edit

Kahneman elaborated a distinction between two notions of utility.  Experienced utility is the subjective concept that Jeremy Bentham had in mind in his discussion of pleasure and pain.  Decision utility is the more modern usage in economics and decision theory, where utility explains choices and is derived from choices.[24][25] The experienced utility of an episode was formalized as the temporal integration of momentary utility.[25]

The analysis of experienced utility led to the concepts of remembered and predicted utility. Predicted utility (better known as affective forecasting)[26] is the conscious expectation of the experienced utility of an event or episode.[27] Remembered utility is the retrospective evaluation of a past experience.[25][24] The essential finding of many experiments is that predictions and memories of affective experiences are systematically inaccurate.  Furthermore, the remembered evaluation of past episodes (remembered utility) is the best predictor of subsequent decision utility.[28][29][25][30]

One of the cognitive biases of remembered utility is called the peak–end rule. It affects how people remember the pleasantness or unpleasantness of experiences. It states that a persons overall impression of past events is determined, for the most part, not by the total pleasure and suffering it contained, but by how it felt at its peak and at its end.[31] For example, the memory of a painful colonoscopy is improved if the examination is extended by three minutes in which the scope is still inside but not moved anymore, resulting in a moderately uncomfortable sensation. This extended colonoscopy, despite involving more pain overall, is remembered less negatively due to the reduced pain at the end. This even increases the likelihood for the patient to return for subsequent procedures.[32]

Happiness and life satisfaction edit

The analysis of the experienced utility of short episodes readily extends to the broader notion of happiness. This connection led Kahneman, together with Ed Diener and Norbert Schwarz to organize a workshop, which yielded a book that covered a range of topics in hedonic psychology, which they defined as “…the study of what makes experiences and life pleasant or unpleasant.[33] It is concerned with feelings of pleasure and pain, of interest and boredom, of joy and sorrow, and of satisfaction and dissatisfaction. It is also concerned with the whole range of circumstances, from the biological to the societal, that occasion suffering and enjoyment.[33]

Most studies of well-being use retrospective questions such as “How happy are you these days?”. A smaller number of studies use experience sampling, in which people are probed at random times during the day, and asked to rate their experience of the present moment.  Much later (source TED talk) Kahneman described this distinction in terms of two selves: the experiencing self, which is aware of pleasure and pain as they are happening, and the remembering self, which shows the aggregate pleasure and pain over an extended period of time.[34]   

Kahneman initially believed that the happiness of the experiencing self is the true measure of well-being.  Around 2000, he assembled a team consiting of Alan Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz and Arthur Stone.  The mission of the team was to create a measure of experienced happiness that economists could take seriously.  As a more practical substitute to the experience sampling techniques of the time, the team developed The Day-Reconstruction Method, in which participants described the day as a sequence of episodes, and rated the experience on several affective dimensions.[35][36] Kahneman also participated in the formulation of the well-being module of the Gallup World Poll.[37]  The effort to measure experienced happiness was only partly successful. Measures of affect are routinely included in well-being questionnaires, but the idea that experienced happiness is the better concept did not hold. Kahneman has defined happiness in terms of "what I experience here and now",[38] but says that in reality humans pursue life satisfaction,[39] which "is connected to a large degree to social yardsticks–achieving goals, meeting expectations."[40][41][42]

Focusing illusion edit

With David Schkade, Kahneman developed the notion of the focusing illusion to explain in part the mistakes people make when estimating the effects of different scenarios on their future happiness (also known as affective forecasting, which has been studied extensively by Daniel Gilbert).[43][35] The "illusion" occurs when people consider the impact of one specific factor on their overall happiness, they tend to greatly exaggerate the importance of that factor, while overlooking the numerous other factors that would in most cases have a greater impact.

A good example is provided by Kahneman and Schkade's 1998 paper, "Does living in California make people happy? A focusing illusion in judgments of life satisfaction".[43] In that paper, students in the Midwest and in California reported similar levels of life satisfaction, but the Midwesterners thought their Californian peers would be happier. The only distinguishing information the Midwestern students had when making these judgments was the fact that their hypothetical peers lived in California. Thus, they "focused" on this distinction, thereby overestimating the effect of the weather in California on its residents' satisfaction with life.

Teaching edit

Kahneman taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1970-1978. He then became a professor at the University of British Columbia, ending in 1986. Next, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986-1994.[44] Now, Kahneman is a senior scholar and faculty member emeritus at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a fellow at Hebrew University and a Gallup Senior Scientist.[45]

Personal life edit

Kahneman's first wife was Irah Kahneman,[46] an Israeli social researcher, with whom he had two children. His son has schizophrenia, and his daughter, Lenore Shoham, works in technology.[47][48]

His second wife was the cognitive psychologist Anne Treisman, from 1978 until her death in 2018. As of 2014, they lived part-time in Berkeley, California.[49][50] As of 2020, he lives in New York City with Barbara Tversky, the widow of his long-time collaborator Amos Tversky.[51][7]

Kahneman's paternal uncle was Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, the head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva.[7]

In 2015 Kahneman described himself as a very hard worker, as "a worrier" and "not a jolly person". But, despite this, he said, "I'm quite capable of great enjoyment, and I've had a great life."[52]

Awards and recognition edit

Honorary Degrees edit

Notable contributions edit

Books edit

  • Kahneman, Daniel (1973). Attention and Effort. Prentice-Hall.
  • Kahneman, Daniel; Slovic, Paul; Tversky, Amos (1982). Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge University Press.
  • Kahneman, Daniel; Diener, E.; Schwarz, N. (1999). Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Kahneman, Daniel; Tversky, Amos (2000). Choices, Values and Frames. Cambridge University Press.
  • Kahneman, Daniel; Gilovich, Thomas; Griffin, Dale (2002). Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521792608.
  • Kahneman, Daniel (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374275631. (Reviewed by Freeman Dyson in New York Review of Books, 22 December 2011, pp. 40–44.)
  • Kahneman, Daniel; Sibony, Olivier; Sunstein, Cass R. (2021). Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. William Collins. ISBN 978-0008308995.

See also edit

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Further reading edit

External links edit

  •   Media related to Daniel Kahneman at Wikimedia Commons
  •   Quotations related to Daniel Kahneman at Wikiquote
  • Official website (at Princeton)
  • Daniel Kahneman at TED  
  • Daniel Kahneman at IMDb
  • Daniel Kahneman on Nobelprize.org   including the Nobel Lecture Maps of Bounded Rationality
Awards
Preceded by Laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
2002
Served alongside: Vernon L. Smith
Succeeded by