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Daniel Kahneman was Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1993 and transferred to emeritus status in 2007. Kahneman received his bachelor’s degree in psychology and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1954 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Prior to Princeton, he held faculty positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of British Columbia, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Kahneman’s research focused on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, including the development of prospect theory with Amos Tversky. His work integrated psychological insights into economic science and influenced fields such as economics, finance, medicine, law, and public policy. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. Kahneman authored the book Thinking, Fast and Slow, published in 2011, and co-authored Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, published in 2021. Among his many honors are the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, the Lifetime Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 2007, and the Grawemeyer Prize in 2002. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.