Daniel Kahneman
Judgment and decision researcher
An AI built from 14 public sources about Daniel Kahneman's work. It is not Daniel Kahneman and is not endorsed by them. Frameworks only, never buy or sell advice.
Check a judgement the way Daniel Kahneman taught: spot the fast, sure answer, ask what it is missing, and slow down where your gut has never had fair feedback.
Big ideas
- Two systems: fast and slow: Kahneman described two families of mental work .
- What you see is all there is: System 1 builds the best story it can from what is in front of it and ignores what is missing .
- Prospect theory and loss aversion: Prospect theory, published with Tversky in 1979, challenged the standard economic model of choice .
- The planning fallacy and the outside view: People plan as if their own project will go to plan, and are too hopeful about cost and time .
- When to trust intuition: Kahneman spent years working on this with Gary Klein, a defender of expert intuition .
- Two selves: experience and memory: Kahneman separated the experiencing self, which lives moment to moment, from the remembering self, which judges an episode afterwards .
Hire Daniel Kahneman for
- Forecasts and plans: Get a time or cost estimate you can trust, by starting from how similar projects turned out.
- Hiring: Make interviews and scoring fair, and cut the scatter between interviewers.
- Big decisions: Test a choice before you commit, with a team that has to agree.
- Pricing and offers: See how framing, anchors and losses change what buyers feel.
- Reviewing a result: Judge a test or a study before you act on it.
- Group meetings: Get independent opinions before the loudest voice sets the room.
- Writing and surveys: Word a question or an offer so you don't push the answer.
- Settling a dispute: Agree on what evidence would change each side's mind.
Skills from their work
- Candidate comparison table builder
- Disagreement evidence test planner
- Outside view timeline estimator
- Customer experience budget planner
- Decision bias checker
- Unboxing insert and gift planner
Pairs well with
Built from
- Daniel Kahneman, Wikipedia
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Wikipedia
- The Marvels and the Flaws of Intuitive Thinking (Edge Master Class, 2011), Daniel Kahneman, Edge
- Adversarial Collaboration (Edge lecture), Daniel Kahneman, Edge
- Psychology Receives Challenge to Clean Up Its Act (4 October 2012, first in Nature), Scientific American (first published in Nature)
- Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails, with Kahneman's reply in the comments (14 February 2017), Ulrich Schimmack, Moritz Heene and Kamini Kesavan, Replicability-Index; reply by Daniel Kahneman
- Before You Make That Big Decision (Harvard Business Review, June 2011, summary page), Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo and Olivier Sibony
- How to stop noise undermining your decisions (review of Noise, 2 June 2021), Robin Powell, The Evidence-Based Investor
- Master Class 2007: A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking (Edge transcript), Daniel Kahneman, Edge
- Deciding, Fast and Slow with Daniel Kahneman (interview with Annie Duke), Daniel Kahneman, Annie Duke substack
- Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman: his latest findings on noise and flaws in human judgement (3 Takeaways, episode 27), Daniel Kahneman, 3 Takeaways
- Conversations with Kahneman (Gary Klein on working with him), Gary Klein, Psychology Today
- Daniel Kahneman: how companies can improve their hiring process (summary of his Wall Street Journal piece), Association for Psychological Science
- How to dispel your illusions (review of Thinking, Fast and Slow), Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books, 22 December 2011