Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, in 1934, where his mother, Rachel, was visiting relatives. He spent his childhood years in Paris, France, where his parents had emigrated from Lithuaniain

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Kahneman received his Bachelor of Science degree with a major in psychology, and a minor in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Cognitive psychology
Kahneman began his academic career as a lecturer in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1961. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1966. His early work focused on visual perception and attention. For

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Kahneman's first wife was Irah Kahneman, an Israeli educational psychologist, with whom he had two children. His son has schizophrenia, and his daughter works in technology.
His second wife was the cognitive psychologist

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• Anchoring and adjustment
• Attribute substitution
• Availability heuristic
• Base rate fallacy

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• Kahneman, Daniel (1973). Attention and Effort. Prentice-Hall.
• Kahneman, Daniel; Slovic, Paul; Tversky, Amos (1982). Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge

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• In 2001, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences
• In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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