Nobel-prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies
Dhaka, March 29 -- Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90.
Kahneman, who wrote bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, argued against the notion that people's behaviour is rooted in a rational decision-making process - rather that it is often based on instinct.
Kahneman's employer, Princeton University, where the Israeli-American academic worked until his death, confirmed his death on Wednesday in a statement on its website.
"Many areas in the social sciences simply have not been the same since he arrived on the scene," Prof Eldar Shafir, a former colleague, said in a press release. "He will be greatly missed...
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