Amos Tversky ’ s contributions to legal scholarship : Remarks at the BDRM session in honor of Amos Tversky , June 16 , 2006

Amos Tversky and the Ascent of Behavioral Economics

Amos Tversky investigated and explained a wide range of phenomena that lead to anomalous human decisions. His two most significant contributions, both written with Daniel Kahneman, are the decision-making heuristics—representativeness, availability, and anchoring—and prospect theory. Tversky’s concepts have broadly influenced the social sciences. In economics, they gave rise to the burgeoning f...

Preference, Belief, and Similarity : Selected Writings

Amos Tversky (1937–1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally how they are systematically violated by the vagaries and consequences of human information processi...

The Representation of Judgment Heuristics and the Generality Problem

In his debates with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Gerd Gigerenzer puts forward a stricter standard for the proper representation of judgment heuristics. I argue that Gigerenzer’s stricter standard contributes to naturalized epistemology in two ways. First, Gigerenzer’s standard can be used to winnow away cognitive processes that are inappropriately characterized and should not be used in th...

The Semantic Pointer Model of Similarity

The Psychological Ideas of Amos Tversky and Their Relevance for Political Science

Amos Tversky died in 1996. Tversky’s professional ideas and contributions revolutionized not only his own field of cognitive psychology, but that of economics as well. The purpose of this article is to systematically outline the meaning and potential significance of Tversky’s insights for the study of political science. This discussion centers on three specific foci: judgment under uncertainty;...