Daniel Kahneman changed how we think about human nature – the psychologist remembered by a former student

By Daniel Read, Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Daniel Kahneman’s passing at 90 years old has left a major gap in the field of behavioural science and in the wider intellectual community.

His scientific contributions, many made in collaboration with cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky, transformed the disciplines of psychology and economics. They also had outsize effects on philosophy, political science and many other disciplines.

I first met Danny in 1984, when I was a student. I moved to Vancouver, Canada to study in his lab at University of British Columbia, which he shared with psychologist Ann Triesman. Although…

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