I hated the status of being a Jew in Europe. Just a teenager, he already viewed the world through a psychological lens: “It was so completely different. A bullet came through his bedroom his scout leader was killed. They found a new war – the Israeli war of independence. They are left wondering about their decisions and how they can be so easily fooled.Īfter the war, mother, older sister and Danny moved to Palestine in search of a new life. In my experience, almost all who encounter Kahneman and Tversky’s classic tests get a psychological double hit: an immediate burst of mental energy combined with a sudden loss of confidence. Readers can try the experiments on themselves. The results have influenced and continue to influence individuals, organisations and governments worldwide. He also has gripping raw material.įrom the late 1960s, for two decades, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky designed scientifically groundbreaking yet simple and intuitive experiments on human judgment and decision-making. In The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds, Michael Lewis does what he can to ensure that the most renowned experimental psychologists of modern times obtain historical recognition. The presence of the last pair in this short list will strike many people as odd, but perhaps not for long. Lennon and McCartney, Watson and Crick, Gilbert and Sullivan, Fred and Ginger, Kahneman and Tversky.
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