Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli American psychologist and best-selling author whose Nobel Prize-winning research upended economics \u2014 as well as fields ranging from sports to public health \u2014 by demonstrating the extent to which people abandon logic and leap to conclusions, died March 27. He was 90.<\/p>\n
His death was confirmed by his stepdaughter Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker. She did not say where or how he died.<\/p>\n
Dr. Kahneman\u2019s research was best known for debunking the notion of \u201chomo economicus,\u201d the \u201ceconomic man\u201d who since the epoch of Adam Smith was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, Dr. Kahneman found, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often lead to wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.<\/p>\n
These misguided decisions occur because humans \u201care much too influenced by recent events,\u201d Dr. Kahneman once said. \u201cThey are much too quick to jump to conclusions under some conditions and, under other conditions, they are much too slow to change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Daniel Kahneman, who changed psychology and economics forever, dies at 90.<\/p>\n Thanks for everything.<\/p>\n We remember him in 10 great quotes: pic.twitter.com\/kiyhC2kCo3<\/a><\/p>\n — Wisdom Theory (@wisdom_theory) March 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n