Daniel Kahneman Interview, plus links to author biography, book summaries, excerpts and reviews

Daniel Kahneman
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Daniel Kahneman

How to pronounce Daniel Kahneman: KAH-neh-mun

An interview with Daniel Kahneman

In a 2010 TED lecture, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman analyzes how the human brain makes irrational decisions and falls prey to mental "traps," and he looks at how humans' experienced happiness is quite distinct from their remembered happiness.

In a 2010 TED lecture, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman analyzes how the human brain makes irrational decisions and falls prey to mental "traps," and he looks at how humans' experienced happiness is quite distinct from their remembered happiness.

Daniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory


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